Google's Witch Walking on The US Streets

Because tomorrow is October 31 and everyone prepares their costumes for Halloween, the companies from all around the world adapted their websites in order to celebrate this holiday. Since Google is one of the most visited webpages on the web, it is very likely to see a new doodle which is especially supposed to bring something new to the Halloween fans. But this year, it might be something different, as Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped reported that the super giant already started the party with a special witch included in Google Maps Street View. Do you remember that tiny yellow man that was meant to help the viewers choose their Street View location? He is now a witch and he's going to haunt the US streets.

Google's doodles appeared on the main page of the search giant every time the Mountain View company considered that there is something to be celebrated or honored. For example, one of the most controversial doodles appeared on Valentine's Day when Google's logo could be easily read Googe due to the design. All the doodles are available on a special page powered by Google, which invites the users to see all of them for free.

If Google celebrates the Halloween with Google Maps Street View, other companies already modified their websites with spooky elements for design. For example, the UK version of Ask.com is entirely haunted by ghosts but the global website remains unmodified. Yahoo didn't change its logo in any of the websites.

"Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and viewing horror films. Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain," the article published on Wikipedia reads.

"Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is now celebrated in several parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom."