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By now, Google's Valentine's Day doodle is making the rounds around the world and has touched millions of people, or at least given something fun and interesting to look at and forget what they wanted to search for in the first place.The animation is rather interesting and a special project at Google. Whil... |
14 February 2012
17:41 GMT |
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It's Valentine's Day again and this means one thing and one thing only, Google is running a customary doodle. This time around, Google pulled no punches and has created a video animation for the occasion.
The video depicts one boy's try at winning the affection of the girl he likes, to little avail. T... |
14 February 2012
05:25 GMT |
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You may have noticed that Google is running a Charles Dickens-themed doodle globally. It is the famed author's 200th birthday and Google is celebrating by running a special doodle on its homepage.
The doodle is quite dense, as opposed to Google's usual style, and features many of Dickens' famous chara... |
7 February 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Google usually reserves its homepage doodles for famous scientists, artists, generally people that are well known or deserve to be. But Google isn't always uptight, it's got a lighter side as well.
Over the weekend, Google ran a very distinctive doodle, only in the US and the UK, celebrating 125 years sinc... |
30 January 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Google is kicking off its fifth annual Doodle 4 Google contest, which asks students in the US to set their imagination free and create their very own doodles for the chance of it being featured on the Google homepage, as well as several other prizes."The theme for this year’s contest is 'If I could travel ... |
18 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Google is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day in the US today with a dedicated doodle. The doodle is only visible to US visitors. It depicts Martin Luther King and others around the Google logo. The doodle is a special commission and was not drawn by Google's in-house artists.
It was created by Faith Ringgold... |
16 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Google celebrated the work of famed cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of the Addams Family. Over the weekend, it featured a Google doodle with the main members of the family and the Google logo letters, of course.
Addams worked as a cartoonist for his entire life and first created the characters that the world woul... |
9 January 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Google ran a very festive, or at least musical, doodle for the winter holidays, over the weekend. In case you weren't around a computer for the past few days, you can check out a video of the Christmas doodle in action.
When it first showed up, it wasn't animated, but the full version soon went online.
Cl... |
27 December 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Google has started rolling out its winter holidays doodle. It's only available in countries where it is already December 24, Australia or New Zealand, but it should be popping up on local homepages and eventually on the global Google.com homepage as the clock strikes 12 in the respective time zones. This year&#... |
23 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Google is getting more ambitious and more innovative with its doodles which it features on its global or local homepages quite frequently lately. The doodles themselves have become increasingly sophisticated, not only technically, but artistically as well.It's quite likely that, over the years, you've seen ... |
19 December 2011
10:11 GMT |
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It's safe to say that doodles are a common appearance on Google these days. This year in particular, there has been one every week or so. While most are simple drawings, a few are very elaborate. Google has recreated entire games, virtual guitars and has played movies replacing the Google logo on the homepage.So... |
16 December 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Google is running a doodle celebrating the birthday of Robert Norton Noyce, a legendary figure in Silicon Valley, the inventor of the integrated circuit, at least the practical version which came into use, and the cofounder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.
Arguably, Google, the web, even computers owe it a... |
12 December 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Google is running a doodle celebrating the 125 birthday of Mexican painter Diego Rivera. He is best known for his murals most of which are in Mexico and the US.
His works focus on social and political themes, class inequality and capitalism, but also on the struggles of the indigenous peoples of Mexico.
He was a de... |
8 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Doodles are a regular occurrence at Google these days and the company has been running localized doodles for quite some time too. The most obvious examples are the various doodles Google showcases for the national days of the countries it's available in.
Sometimes, Google just paints its logo in the country... |
1 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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On Thanksgiving, Google ran the traditional turkey-featuring doodle. It's no surprise, Google has had a Thanksgiving doodle every year since 1998, you can check out all of them in this gallery. In fact, the first Thanksgiving doodle was the second ever doodle ran by Google.
There is a history then and, at fir... |
26 November 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Thanksgiving is here, well, at least in the US. Everyone else still has to go to work just like any other day. Still, just in case you're feeling a little festive, or maybe you're just curious, here are all of Google's Thanksgiving doodles ever made.There are quite a lot of them, since Google used seve... |
24 November 2011
16:11 GMT |
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As you'd expect, Google is running a doodle for Thanksgiving day in the US. It's a fairly interesting one, it features a turkey and the Google logo, but it's not just any turkey, you can customize it to your heart's content.
You can change the color and the shape of its feathers, its hat or haird... |
24 November 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Google is now running one of its most interesting doodles to date, but you've probably missed it since it's not available on the main site. It is however, running in much of Europe.
The doodle celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first book published by Polish science fiction author and philosopher Stani... |
23 November 2011
07:32 GMT |
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Google is running a doodle celebrating Louis Daguerre, a French inventor and photographer who developed the process of daguerreotype, the first commercially viable and successful photography process.
He developed the process working with Nicéphore Niépce, the creator of the first permanent photograph t... |
18 November 2011
08:07 GMT |
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Google is currently honoring multiple Nobel Prize laureate Marie Curie with a doodle celebrating her birthday, 144 years after the fact. Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was one the most influential scientists of the 20th century and was a pioneer as much in science as in getting women accepted ... |
7 November 2011
05:20 GMT |
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As in every year for the past decade or so, Google is running a Halloween themed doodle. And this year, it really went all out. While regularly it just runs a simple image doodle, or perhaps an animated one, this year it's taking pumpkin carving to the next level.
The company got hold of six huge pumpkins, some... |
31 October 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Google is running a doodle honoring Disney artist Mary Blair, who worked on many of the studio's classic and shaped their visual style. While largely unknown to the outside world, her innovative work has been an influence on designers and animators ever since.
She joined Disney in 1940 and worked on many of the... |
21 October 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Google is running one of its regular doodles on its homepage. This time around, it's celebrating the late clay animator Art Clokey who died last year.
Google is using his best known character Gumby and some of his friends in the animated doodle which follows the style of the artist.
Keeping true to the au... |
12 October 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Google is celebrating its 13th birthday with a simple doodle on its homepage. The doodle looks like an old birthday photo, with the Google letters gathered around a birthday cake. Google opted for a low key doodle for its own celebration, as it usually does, and not any of animated or interactive doodles that it has... |
27 September 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Google is running one of its best doodles yet, in terms of visual spectacle, a video animation dedicated to Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. Today would have been his 65th birthday. To celebrate his legacy, Google created a lengthy, for a doodle, animation set to the sounds of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. The... |
5 September 2011
04:56 GMT |
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If you've done a Google search today, you may have noticed an interesting doodle of a blackboard with an equation written in chalk and Google erased underneath. The equation in question was formulated by French amateur mathematician Pierre de Fermat and remained unsolved for some 358 years. To celebrate the math... |
17 August 2011
06:20 GMT |
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If you're using Google today, which is actually very likely, you'll notice that it's running one of its regular doodles. If you're not using a very modern browser though, you may not realize that there's much more to the doodle than meets the eye. You can drag any of the individual parts and... |
22 July 2011
07:02 GMT |
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You may have noticed that the Google homepage and search engine is a bit on the green side today, with a logo made up entirely of green peas. Google isn't celebrating any agricultural event, instead it's marking the birthday of the 'father' of genetics, Gregor Mendel, who, through his work, establ... |
20 July 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Google is running a couple of doodles for the summer solstice, one for each hemisphere. In the north, June 21 marks the start of summer and the longest day of the year. In the south, the opposite is true, June 21 is the shortest day.Google has commissioned a couple of doodles from Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, kn... |
21 June 2011
08:13 GMT |
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The electric guitar doodle in honor of Les Paul may be gone from the Google homepage, but if you're not done having fun with it you'll be glad to know that the doodle now has a permanent home in Google's Logos gallery."Good news for Les Paul fans: his doodle now has a permanent home, so you can keep pl... |
11 June 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Many people feel they lost some things with the transition from printed books to digital ones, but Google is working on recovering at least some of those. One way it's doing this is with the new doodle mode which is available for some of the titles in its eBookstore.
"As the young (and young at heart) know, b... |
10 June 2011
08:02 GMT |
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Google is regularly running custom logos on the homepage, or doodles, to celebrate or mark important events and people. Recently, these doodles have become increasingly complex and the latest doesn't disappoint. Google is honoring the memory of Les Paul, the famous creator of one of the earliest electric guitars... |
9 June 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Google has announced the winner of its yearly Doodle 4 Google competition which asks school children to let their imagination loose and design a Google logo. The winners of this year's round is Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, Calif. with his doodle doodle titled "Space Life." The doodle will be displayed on... |
20 May 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Google is always trying to outdo itself with the doodles it sports on the homepage for special occasions. Sometimes it's with intricate, interactive logos, sometimes it's with videos, but other times, like today, it's doing it by sheer numbers.Google has had 'multi-page' doodles before, but i... |
9 May 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Google ran a flurry of doodles over the weekend, some obvious, some less so, but in line with what it has been doing lately. The company has been putting out custom logos at a steady rate, but it doesn't seem like people are getting fed up with it, not yet anyway, and, especially on the weekends, a small, inform... |
2 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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With the whole of Britain catching the royal wedding fever, there's no surprise that Google is joining the party and is offering several ways for people to take part in the celebrations. Its Google.co.uk homepage has a royal wedding-dedicated doodle, a fairytale wedding at that, and Google is also live streaming... |
29 April 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Google can't get enough of the doodles it regularly showcases on its homepage to mark special occasions and events. It's getting to the point where seeing the regular Google logo is becoming the event, not the other way around. The latest doodle celebrates the birthday of noted French-American ornithologist... |
26 April 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Google is celebrating Earth Day once again with a very interesting logo, filled with little surprises. Fitting perhaps, the Earth Day 2011 doodle is full of life, quite literally, everywhere you look something is happening, from sneezing pandas to salmon swimming upstream.It's the 41st anniversary of Earth Day, ... |
22 April 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Doodle's are becoming a permanent fixture for Google with a different one every few days in some periods. Today, Google is celebrating the birth of one of the most famous actors of all time, Charlie Chaplin. He would have been 122 years old today and Google is marking the occasion in a suitable manner, with... |
15 April 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Google has started displaying a special logo celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. On April 12, 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew the Vostok 1 space craft into orbit becoming the first human to reach outer space. He became an international celebrity and that first flight ushered in... |
11 April 2011
08:55 GMT |
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Google is sporting a special logo to celebrate the birthday of famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. The doodle is visible on the main search site as well as on many of its localized versions. While there's nothing special about this doodle, it looks rather nice, resembling a vintage poster, it spells ... |
24 March 2011
11:10 GMT |
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Google is now celebrating the 100th yearly International Women's Day, a holiday observed in many countries around the world. Initially started as a human rights and political event, it later became an apolitical holiday in many countries. Google is marking the occasion with a special doodle, events around the wo... |
8 March 2011
08:17 GMT |
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Google frequently lends its homepage to celebrate or mark special occasions. Yesterday, Google paid a tribute to Will Eisner, a comic book pioneer, who has been a great influence for younger comic book artists and the medium as a whole. The artist died in 2005, he would have been 94 years old today."Eisner influenced... |
7 March 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Google doesn't need much of an excuse to put on some flashy custom logo for all manner of occasions and celebrations. Valentine's Day couldn't be skipped, but Google kept it simple this time around, no animations, no gizmos, just a plain old jpeg with a link behind it. Granted, the colors really do pop... |
14 February 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Google is about to delight the web, and help people waste countless hours of productivity, once again with one of its doodles. Celebrating Jules Verne's birthday, on February 8, Google is running a doodle dedicated to the famous science fiction writer, most likely, across most of its localized search pages and o... |
7 February 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Google regularly marks special occasions and celebrations with custom logos, or doodles as it calls them, on the homepage. Right now it's marking the 172nd birthday of 19th century French painter Paul Cézanne. Each year, Google also encourages kids to tap into their artistic side and create a doodle to be... |
19 January 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Google couldn't miss an opportunity as New Year's Day to do something special with its homepage. Continuing a tradition started in 2000, Google had a custom logo to mark the start of the new year in most places around the world. The 2011 doodle was quite similar to the previous one, but it featured roman nu... |
3 January 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Google is kicking off the holiday season with a couple of St. Nicholas Day and Sinterklaas doodles in the countries that celebrate the tradition. Children in many countries receive presents on the morning of St. Nicholas Day and the figure serves as the basis for the modern Santa Claus.Yesterday, Google ran a St. Nic... |
6 December 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Halloween is not here for most of the world, but the scariest day of the year has already started in parts of the Pacific ocean. Google is not wasting any time and is already running a dedicated doodle in New Zealand with Australia next. And what better way to celebrate Halloween than with a good old fashioned Scooby... |
30 October 2010
09:42 GMT |
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With Google having recently celebrated its birthday with a special doodle, it's now gotten back to celebrating other people's, or in this case, animated TV shows' birthdays. Google is now featuring a "The Flintstones" doodle to mark the popular show's 50th anniversary. The Flintstones doodle is cu... |
29 September 2010
10:09 GMT |
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