In addition to celebrating Muppets today, Google appears to be loudly and proudly celebrating something else on its home page.

With the Verizon Droid launch hot and heavily underway today, the search giant is according the highly-regarded Android phone a place of honor on Google.com today. Although it’s not unprecedented — they’ve done a homepage ad for both the first Android handset’s G1 launch and for the Chrome browser — it’s still a relatively rare occurrence to be up in lights on the Google homepage.

Clicking the link takes you to a splash page with more information and purchasing links — we took a screencap you can see below.

Of course it makes sense for Google to give a nice promotional push to what is shaping up to be the handset that finally pushes its Android mobile operating system project into the mainstream. Not only is it the first Android phone on the U.S.’s largest carrier, but it’s being widely hailed as the phone that comes closest to catching the iPhone in terms of sheer awesomeness.

Did you pick up a Droid today? Are you contemplating doing so? Let us know your impressions or vacillations in the comments.

Tags: ads, android, droid, Google, Mobile 2.0, Motorola, verizon droid

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