Google Goes to Space As It Ends the Holiday Doodle Series

Google has finished off its holiday doodle series with a very interesting image of the moon and a space ship complete with Christmas lights to give it a festive touch. The image was a bit of a mystery for most people, but it all makes sense when you realize that Google is funding an ambitious project, the Google Lunar X Prize, to put a robot on the Moon designed for privately funded teams.

The doodle ended a series of five Google logos which ran last week to mark the beginning of the winter holidays. The series started off with a peculiar image of a tropical location and a palm tree dressed in Christmas lights, not exactly the most obvious image of Christmas. Since Google is a global brand and the Internet removes borders or cultural differences, for the most part, the company has tried to make the logos appeal to a wider audience as possible.

The second doodle in the series was a much more familiar sight, with snow everywhere and snowmen dressed in the Google colors. The series moved forward on the third day with a mountain location depicting a lake-side cabin. Despite all the postcards from previous days being stacked on top of each other, the Google logo can still be made out from the objects in the doodle.

The fourth doodle logo is a scene from what some are saying is the Li river in China. Fireworks light up the sky behind the mountain peaks, an image perhaps more appropriate for New Year's rather than Christmas, but Google probably wanted to diversify a bit. This leads to the fifth and final doodle, the space-themed one, which is probably the most symbolic of them all. It really shows Google's ambitions and ideals and seems to imply that there is more to Google than just search, more than just the web in fact.