Seen Google’s homepage today?

Apparently, there’s quite the debate over the ‘misspelling’ of Google. However, given Google’s penchant for strange and obscure allusions, I prefer to think it was something like this:

I don’t know if any of have happened to see the Google customized logo for today but it looks distinctly like it’s missing the letter “l.” Knowing Google’s penchant for obscure mathematical, science, and literary references, I did a search on the word “Googe.” Sure enough, I got a wikipedia entry for Barnabe Googe, a 16th century poet mostly famous for the following line:

I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.

Here’s the aforementioned wikipedia entry.

What do you think? Crappy graphic? Clever allusion? Neither? Inquiring minds, and all that.