Lucy Maud Montgomery, better known as L.M. Montgomery, is being honored today with a video Google Doodle.
The author, born on November 30th, 1874, is best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables and the subsequent series. Monday’s Google Doodle is celebrating what would be her 141st birthday.
The beloved Canadian author first published Anne of Green Gables in 1908, after a few years of trying. The book became an instant hit. The novel tells the tale of 11-year-old Anne Shirley, an orphan who is mistakenly sent to a family farm on Prince Edward Island. Her Green Gables series spanned eight books – the final one being published in 1921. A “lost” book, the ninth in the series, was found long after her death and published in 2009.
Montgomery also published other novels, and was a prolific short story writer. Her various short story collections contains hundreds of works.
Check out Google’s Doodle:
Montgomery died in 1942, reportedly from coronary thrombosis. A note found by her bedside has caused speculation as to a possible suicide.
“I have lost my mind by spells and I do not dare think what I may do in those spells. May God forgive me and I hope everyone else will forgive me even if they cannot understand. My position is too awful to endure and nobody realizes it. What an end to a life in which I tried always to do my best,” it read in part.
Google is showing a doodle for the annual Perseid meteor shower, which peaks tonight. The Perseids are a well-known meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The point from which they appear to come lies in the Perseus constellation, which is where the meteors get their name.
Google appropriately lends its doodle some animation and all around cool visuals:
The Perseid meteor shower is typically the biggest one we can see from this part of the world. It’s expected to peak Wednesday morning. You can actually watch a live video stream online courtesy of Nasa.
They’ll be embedding a Ustream player on this page at 9:30PM Eastern tonight.
Today (Saturday, November 23rd, 2013) marks the 50th anniversary of the long-time-running British science fiction series Doctor Who. This day also marks when the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and its affiliates aired the 50th-anniversary special “The Day of the Doctor” around the world. To commemorate this wonderful milestone in science fiction history, Google presents a “Google Doodle” to its users that honors the show’s 50th anniversary.
Doctor Who first aired on the BBC Network on November 23rd, 1963 (according to The BBC), with the episode “An Unearthly Child,” starring William Hartnell (The First Doctor). The original Doctor Who series aired until 1989 and was later “rebooted” in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston playing “The Ninth Doctor.”
According to The Guardian, the Doctor Who Google Doodle (commonly referred to as the “Whodle”) was created by a team of five people under the direction of Matthew Cruickshank who has been working at the search engine giant for a little over a year.
The “Whodle” is not just a static image on Google’s front page displaying ALL 11 regenerations of “The Doctor” (in arcade-computing form) throughout the history of the show, but it is also an interactive game (involving two well-known Doctor Who villains: Daleks and Cybermen) that the user can play after they have clicked on their favorite Doctor from the image. Cruickshank elaborates on the game for the “Whodle,” as well as giving props to his crew in an interview with The Guardian:
“It’s the first game that I’ve designed. But it’s the technicians and programmers that actually make the game. I just art direct, create the assets, set the visual tone, design the characters, and then do pieces of animation.”
Cruickshank also added, in his interview with The Guardian, that he did not have much time to create the “Whodle,” stating “It was about four months ago that an employee here who’s a massive Doctor Who fan added it to our list of potential doodles. We looked through it and realised that this was something special, a chance to really celebrate a national institution.”
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly (EW), Cruickshank explains how to navigate through the game, avoid the Daleks and Cybermen, acquire as many Google letters as you can, and return back to the TARDIS as soon as you can :
“What’s interesting about this is it’s a global doodle. So we can’t use any language. So it’s very visual in terms of how to control The Doctor. When you play the game you’ll see it’s a very rich world with a lot of dimension and perspective. The challenge was ‘How can we get the idea across that you can use your mouse, or controls on tablet or keyboard? How can you navigate the Doctor?’ So it’s very much a point and click game in terms of using your mouse to navigate to an area and once you click on that specific square the doctor will move there.”
How did you like the “Whodle” celebrating Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary, and how far did you get in the game? Post your comments about the “Whodle” and game strategies below in this post’s comments section.
Various Doctor Who fanatics on Twitter have posted their reactions about today’s “Whodle”
I have never wasted so much time on a Google doodle. I think I've racked up at least 2 hours on that thing. #savetheday#doctorwho
The hangout features some Google doodlers, including Ryan Germick, who leads the Google Doodles team, as well as a judge from Doodle for Google contest, a member of Google Education team, and some Google-certified educators.
Google is running a popular doodle today for Valentine’s Day. It also happens to honor the birthday of George Ferris, the creator of the Ferris Wheel. It’s a good example of a doodle that works at multiple levels. Not only is it Ferris’ birthday, but the Ferris Wheel happens to symbolize love and dating, as it is a popular ride for lovers.
Interested in learning about the process behind this particular doodle? Read this explanation from the doodlers about how it was created.
With all of the Google Doodles released during the London 2012 Olympics, the normal Google header on the Google homepage has seemed a little stale. Fortunately, that banality makes new Google Doodles even more exciting when they appear.
Today, Google is celebrating the 46th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series with a point-and-click adventure game doodle. The game depicts the show’s characters as the letters of the word Google (Spock is the ‘G’, Uhura and Kirk are ‘o’s, McCoy is the ‘g’, Sulu is the’l’, and Chekov is missing) and features many sound effects from the series.
Throughout the short adventure, players get a chance to see the bridge of the USS Enterprise, the transporter room, and the surface of a barren planet, where an abbreviated version of a famous scene (seen below) from the Star Trek episode “Arena” takes place. Kirk quickly builds the “Gorn Cannon” and defeats the Gorn Captain, who looks like a PEZ dispenser. Of course, the ‘e’ at the end of ‘Google’ who beams down with Kirk is an unnamed redshirt ensign who doesn’t make it through the journey entirely unscathed.
It wouldn’t surprise anyone if it turns out that plenty of Googler’s are trekkies, specifically the ones on the Google Doodle creation team. Star Trek is often cited as an inspiration for nerdy, creative people who engineer or design the technology that is currently changing the world. As far as influences go, Star Trek’s strong moral and egalitarian messages are probably good ones to ensure Google stays true to its “don’t be evil” motto.
[UPDATE]
In case you’ve missed any of the secrets found in the doodle (did you find the Tribbles?), here is a nice walkthrough for the game:
Google has unleashed yet another time-wasting Olympic Google doodle upon web browsers everywhere. While Google has created a different Google doodle for each day of the London 2012 Olympics, the past few days have featured an easy to learn, yet difficult to master mini-game based on an Olympic sport. Yesterday’s doodle saw players navigating rapids in a slalom canoe.
Today’s doodle features a simulated penalty kick shootout in which the player takes on the role of goalkeeper. The game is vastly simplified, as players can only move left to right and jump. Three goals scored ends the game and the total number of balls deflected counts toward a possible three medal tiers. The shots come faster as the game progresses, so just the same as the past two days, quick reflexes and spot-on timing will be required to achieve three medals. A helpful feature players might not realize at first is that their computer mouse can be used for faster, smoother left-right movement.
As for real Olympic soccer, the U.S. women’s soccer team won their third Olympic gold medal in a row after beating Japan 2-1 in the championship match on Thursday. U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo is being singled out as saving the game for the U.S. after a magnificent save in the 85th minute of the game.
The Olympic men’s soccer competition is still ongoing, and the bronze medal match between South Korea and Japan will take place at 2:45 pm EDT this afternoon. The gold medal match between Brazil and Mexico is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10:00 am EDT.
Google 4 Doodle, Google’s doodle contest aimed at students grades K-12, has received a winner: 2nd grader Dylan Hoffman from Racine, Wisconsin.
The doodle, entitled, “Pirate Times,” was Hoffman’s response to Google’s concept of: “If I could travel in time I’d visit…”.
Hoffman gets a $30,000 college scholarship and a Chromebook. His school gets a $50,000 technology grant. His doodle, along with those from 50 state finalists, will be featured in an exhibit at the New York Public Library.
4 other doodles from different grade levels have been named National finalists, and the kids who created those will each get a $5,000 college scholarship. You can get a closer look at the national finalists here.
Google explains, “From North Pole, Alaska to Miami, Florida to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to Kapa’a, Hawai’i, our State Winners and State Finalists hail from literally every corner of the country. Chosen from a total of over 114,000 entries, these masterpieces represent the top doodles from this year’s contest. The State Finalists are the highest ranked doodle from each grade group from each state and the State Winners are the highest ranked doodle per state regardless of grade group. The 50 State Winners were chosen by Google employees and our amazing Guest Judges from the 250 State Finalists. Entries from the District of Columbia were judged along with entries from Maryland.”
Guest judges included supertsar Katy Perry, Phineas and Ferb creator Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, children’s book artist Mo Willems, bestselling co-authors of the Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, Crayola Digital Design Creative Director Brian Nemeckay and Jack Martin, Assistant Director for Public Programs and Lifelong Learning for Children, Teens and Families at The New York Public Library.
Here are the state winners and finalists for grades K-3:
Today, Saturday, March 17, 2012, is St. Patrick’s Day, and Google has a doodle, of course (pictured above). As they often do, Google’s doodle appeared in other parts of the world (like Australia) before making its way here to the U.S.
As a colleague pointed out, the doodle focuses more on art than on drinking, which has become the true meaning of the holiday to some, despite its cultural and religious origins.
If you want to compare the doodle to last year’s (which wasn’t so much about drinking either), you can see it in this Google Doodle compilation:
Of course, talk and the sharing of imagery and videos related to the holiday are all over the social networks, including Google’s own Google+. In fact, it becomes pretty clear that Google+ is no ghost town if you do a search for St. Patrick’s Day, as you can watch the new posts roll in pretty quickly.
Here are some videos that are popping up:
Of course, Google’s Doodle is more about the web search part of Google, and clicking it will simply take you to the query for “St. Patrick’s Day”. Google thinks this Wikipedia entry for St. Patrick’s Day is the best result for that. Do you agree?
Yesterday, Google ran an interesting, animated doodle for its logo, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the world record for largest observed snowflake. As I asked, in my article about it, where does Google come up with this stuff?
A lot of others were wondering the same thing. For example, here are a couple of the comments we got:
“So how exactly did u get the recording of its size without making it melt?”
“Someone could have bulls**tted the whole story with a made up sketch, fake measurements and false claims. You dont know, i dont know, theres no telling if this even really happened….”
According to Wikipedia, which Google presented as the top organic result when clicking on the doodle, in the snowflake was observed in 1887 at 38 centimeters (15 in) in diameter in Fort Keogh, Montana.
The Wikipedia entry cites: Lyons, Walter A (1997). The Handy Weather Answer Book (2nd ed.). Detroit, Michigan: Visible Ink press. ISBN 0-7876-1034-8.
I dug up a New York Times article from 2007, which references the same snowflake, noting that it’s listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, and that the snowflake was measured by a nearby rancher, who described the flakes falling in the storm which produced the flake in question, as “larger than milk pans”. It also says that there was no corroborating evidence to support the rancher’s claim.
Here’s an interesting excerpt from that NYT article:
“Who of us has seen a hailstone the size of a golf ball or a baseball?” asked Kenneth G. Libbrecht, a snowflake devotee at the California Institute of Technology who runs the physics department there in his spare time. “But, clearly, they exist, because people pull them out of their freezers. Some of these things can be very, very rare, but not impossible.”
So too with giant snowflakes, Dr. Libbrecht said. “As big as a basketball?” he asked. “Who knows? It’s not out of the question.”
The laws of physics, he said, suggest no obvious restrictions on the size of very large flakes. But in the real world, Dr. Libbrecht added, wind might break up the fragile compilations, putting an effective size limit on what flutters down from the sky.
As you may know, today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Google is celebrating with a doodle.
The doodle was created by artist Faith Ringgold. Here’s the bio she uses on her site:
Faith Ringgold, began her artistic career more than 35 years ago as a painter. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts — art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Her first book,Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has written and illustrated eleven children’s books. She has received more than 75 awards, fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and seventeen honorary doctorates, one of which is from her alma mater The City College of New York.
Faith Ringgold is married to Burdette Ringgold and has two daughters, Michele and Barbara Wallace; and three granddaughters, Faith, Theodora and Martha. She is a professor of art at the University of California in San Diego, California.
Here’s what Google’s doodle for the day looked like last year:
What do you think of the new doodle? Which do you like better?
Google has a doodle up today, celebrating the 374th birthday of geologist Nicolas Steno.
Though he is known as one of the founders of both modern stratigraphy and modern geology, his scientific contributions have also lent themselves to paleontology, crystallography and even anatomy (he is credited with the discovery of the duct of the parotid salivary gland) in the heads of dogs, rabbits and sheep.
There’s a new Google doodle up today, and you may recognize the characters in it as Gomez, Morticia, Cousin It, Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsley and Uncle Fester, collectively known as The Addams Family.
It’s the hundred birthday of creator Charles Addams, an American cartoonist who introduced the world to these characters in the 30s, with cartoons originally appearing in The New Yorker. Eventually, of course, the characters would come to life on Television, and later still, in film.
When you think about it, Google Doodles are some of the most-viewed artwork around. The basic formula is simple: Take a significant event for the date in question and spell “Google” in an artistic but (mostly) still recognizable fashion. But Google has a knack for these little Doodles, and people just eat them up.
And there have been some pretty great Doodles in 2011. Of course everyone has a different opinion on which Doodles are the best, just like folks have a difference of opinion on any sort of artwork. That obviously means that this “best of” list is nowhere near objective – these are definitely my opinions (and remember, I’m American!). Having said that, I think that the following list is a fairly comprehensive list of some of the better attempts this year.
So let’s get to it (in no particular order):
Google honored the 164th birthday of the great American inventor Thomas Edison. The Doodle was animated, featuring a telegraph machine that types out “G” in morse code as well as a glowing light bulb.
The 183rd birthday of the author Jules Verne was celebrated with an interactive Doodle that allowed users to navigate 20,000 leagues under the sea. You can play around with it in full view HD here.
Charlie Chaplin’s birthday got some special treatment, as Google unveiled a short video of a Chaplin-lookalike interacting with a Google logo.
Google honored the 226th birthday of “Birds of America” author John James Audubon with one of the prettier Doodles of the year. It was also one of the most abstract, as much of the lettering is a little tough to make out.
One of my favorite offerings of 2011 was the set of Roger Hargreaves Doodles. The “Mr. Happy” and “Little Miss Sunshine” author received 16 different Doodles, portraying various characters from his beloved children’s books. See them all in the video below:
The now famous Les Paul Google Doodle allowed you to not only interact with a guitar, but record your songs as well. This led to numerous YouTube videos of people playing famous songs using the playable Doodle, and it turned out to be a major productivity killer. This Doodle was probably the most popular one of the entire year.
Legendary humorist Mark Twain received a massive Doodle fit for widescreen. The Doodle portrayed a few instances from a famous scene from his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Why do the work when you can trick other into doing it for you?
Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham received one of the most buzzed-about Doodles of the year. The animated Doodle takes us through five famous dances from her career – and is truly a pleasure to watch.
Another abstract Doodle comes from Turkey’s National Sovereignty and Children’s Day. Toys are aligned to form the subtle resemblance of the famous Google logo.
This Doodle for Jordan Independence Day is just beautiful:
The Freddie Mercury Google Doodle needs no description. Just pure, unadulterated awesome.
Another wonderful interactive Doodle celebrated Gumby creator Art Clokey. The Doodle featured all the favorite characters from The Gumby Show – The first “G” is a block, and the first “O” morphs into Gumby’s nemeses, the Blockheads. The second “O” turns into Prickle, the yellow dinosaur. The second “G” is Goo, a flying blue mermaid. The “L” is Gumby himself and the final “E” is his sidekick Pokey the pony.
A recent Doodle that ran in Switzerland, Austria and Germany honored the 83rd birthday of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. His unmistakeable design is seen in the Doodle, which highlights some of his most famous architectural accomplishments.
What were your favorite Doodles of 2011? I’m sure I overlooked some great ones – so call me on it. Did I make any egregious omissions? Let us know in the comments.
For a little while now, Google has displayed all of their previous Google Doodles in one specific place, and Google Doodle enthusiasts have been able to browse through every Doodle (beginning in 1998) displayed for countries all over the world.
That site has just received a pretty significant overhaul, and the folks at Google are pretty excited about it.
You can still browse through all of the Doodle, filtered by year and country – just like before. But Google has added deeper interaction with each specific Doodle.
For instance, if I click on that awesome Les Paul Doodle from June, 2011, I am taken to a page when I can interact with the Doodle (read rock out on the guitar) and learn some information behind the Doodle as well.
We’ve always thought it was a little sad that doodles are only available on the homepage for a day. Since we’re firm believers in having too much of a good thing, we set up a gallery of all our previous doodles a while ago. Now on the new site, you can browse, watch or play with over 1000 doodles. Enjoy front-row tickets to a Martha Graham dance, send the first man to space or learn more about why one doodler decided to “cartoonize” Mary Blair.
Google has also added the Doodle Store to the mix, allowing you to order a variety of items stamped with your favorite Google Doodles. This includes T-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, stamps and even skateboards. This holiday season, make sure to snag a Pierre de Fermat-inspired coffee mug for all the math geeks out there.
What’s your favorite Google Doodle From 2011? Let us know in the comments.
Today’s video round-up has a good mix of Halloween festivities and technology. More people, however, are probably interested in getting Siri on their iPhone 4.
You have to hand it to Google. They get pretty creative with their Google Doodles. Sometimes, the real creativity is in the actual doodle itself. Lately they’ve been putting out some pretty cool ones with animations and different interactive elements. Sometimes, however, the creativity lies in simply deciding when to run a doodle.
For example, who would have expected Google to mark the occasion of the 118th birthday of the man who discovered Vitamin C? Don’t raise your hand if you don’t work at or with Google, because I won’t believe you.
That’s what they have done today. It’s the 118th birthday of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with the discovery of vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. NobelPrize.org has a nice bio of him.
He died in 1986 at the age of 93.
Consider just how important vitamin C is, and you might say to yourself, “Yes, this guy absolutely deserves a Google doodle.” But would it have ever occurred to you if Google didn’t do it?
It’s always nice to see the artistic creativity that goes into Google’s doodles. And today’s is nice visually, but often the coolest thing about Google doodles is simply the education they can deliver. Think about how many more people will know who Albert Szent-Gyorgyi is now because Google changed its logo today. How many people will click on that doodle out of curiosity and learn something new? And something worth knowing at that.
This week, comScore reported that 65.09% of all U.S. searches are Google searches. They’re not all from the Google home page, but considering that Americans conducted nearly 20 Billion core searches in August, I think it’s safe to say that a lot of people see Google’s doodles.
In that spirit of learning about vitamin C, here are some charts showing the amount of vitamin C in various plants and animals (via Wikipedia):
Yes, most everyone is madly in love with the new Google Doodle, honoring Martha Graham — rightfully so — but there may be an honest-to-goodness competitor to today’s throne holder, the Star Wars Fail Whale.
Debuting on the official Star Wars blog, the Star Wars Fail Whale is a nifty take on Twitter’s all-too ubiquitous Fail Whale, and it’s done with great style. This sweet mash-up is courtesy of an online artist named Le Kemp, who, besides his Star Wars/Twitter remixes, creates some really nice visual work.
As for the Star Wars Fail Whale, the TIE Fighters are an extremely nice touch, and they also provide good insight as to why Twitter may be down. Clearly, the Empire finds their lack of network stability disturbing; although, I am curious about the relationship between the bird and the whale. That doesn’t really compute, unless Doctor Moreau is working for the Sith.
Silliness aside, in a day where Google Doodles rule the roost, save some room to celebrate the Star Wars Fail Whale. Of course, to actually beat the current Google Doodle, the TIE Fighters would have to fly the Whale off of the screen. Google’s animation is just that good.
Today is late author and illustrator Roger Hargreaves’ birthday, and in honor of that fact Google has unveiled 16 new doodles, all of which are running today on the homepage.
British-born Hargreaves is of course the beloved author of over one hundred children’s books. His most famous books come from the Mr. Men and Little Miss series.
The stories are simple, funny and often times contain morals. Some of his beloved characters are Mr. Happy, Mr. Grumpy, Little Miss Sunshine and Little Miss Chatterbox.
Hargreaves’ books were a beloved part of my childhood, and millions more, as he has sold almost 100 million copies of his books worldwide. If you were born after 1975 or so and were not read these books as a child, you have terrible parents. Just kidding on that…but seriously. These books are crucial.
A lot of people found Google’s recent doodle for John James Audubon difficult to read. I personally didn’t have too much trouble with it, but I do look at these things a lot. However, today’s Royal Wedding-themed doodle on Google.com is a bit of a stretch.
Are Google’s doodles simply getting harder to read? I can’t think of one in recent memory that was this difficult to find a Google logo in. This is more difficult than a “Magic Eye” (remember those?).
If I squint my eyes, and use my imagination, I can kind of make out the word “Google,” but it’s still a bit off from the actual logo-style (at least from what I can see). Let us know if you disagree.
The first “G” and the “l” are the ones I’m having the most trouble with.
I enjoy a good Google Doodle, and appreciate the creativity that goes into making interesting images that present the classic Google logo, and they’re often done so in a very clever manner. This one, while not necessarily a bad piece of art, is just a little less convincing in its portrayal of the logo itself, if you ask me.
One thing is clear, there are two Pandas in Google’s doodle for Earth Day today. Whether that is an intentional reference to the recent Panda algorithm update is debatable. There are two of them, and there have been two roll-outs of the Panda update – one in the U.S. and then one globally (in English).
Of course there are other animals that appear in the doodle – a lion, a couple of penguins, a koala bear, a brown bear, a frog, a red bird, and a fish (which gets eaten by the bear).
It’s a cool doodle. It’s another animated one (which they seem to be making a lot of lately). When you mouse over the Pandas they either get tickled or have fits (not unlike webmasters after the update).
For those of you who haven’t been following, the Panda update was Google’s attempt to crack down on low quality content appearing in search results. Many have applauded the move, but there have been plenty of complaints from webmasters who saw their sites slide in rankings. That’s obvious of course, but we’ve seen some questionable examples.
Some publishers feel that their entire sites (including good content) are being devalued because of some of the lower quality content on their sites. Sites like eHow, EzineArticles, HubPages are trying to substantially increase content quality by making changes to their design, and editorial policies. HubPages just announced it is cracking down on affiliate links, for example.
It’s possible that the Pandas in the doodle have nothing to do with the Panda update. But come on. Out of all of the animals on the Earth, it seems like a pretty big coincidence that two of them would make their way into a Google doodle, so soon after the much talked about algorithm update. At least one Googler (a Search Quality Analyst, at that) has pointed out the connection:
We don’t cover every doodle that Google does. There are so many of them that it seems almost pointless, but sometimes certain ones that stand out to us we deem worthy of more attention.
The PAC-MAN Doodle for example, was particularly noteworthy. Last year, for PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, Google provided a playable PAC-MAN game with the Google logo embedded in the maze. It included all of the original sounds and graphics from the original game (and even a Ms. PAC-MAN Easter egg).
Today’s doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen, co-inventor of the Bunsen Burner, and is another example of an interactive doodle. I’m not going to say it’s as entertaining as the PAC-MAN doodle, but it’s still pretty cool. It does different things as you mouse over different parts.
Someone uploaded the following clip to YouTube, showing the animation in effect:
What’s more impressive to me, is how Google continues to come up with these interesting ways to present the actual letters of the logo, and have it still make sense and look like the letters. Admittedly, I had to look at this one for a moment, before I could confirm that the letters “G-o-o-g-l-e” are really there.
Some of us would still like to see the interactive doodles appear more often, but one can’t help but admire the art of the doodle itself – a practice Google has been employing since its early days as a search engine.
What’s your favorite doodle that the company has displayed?
