Google has celebrated the 122 birthday of Sir Charles Spencer, better known as Charlie Chaplin with a feature not seen before – a video based Google Doodle filmed in black and white. The English comic actor is not only widely regarded as the biggest star of the silent film era but also as a highly talented film director and composer. The traditional Google Logo has been...
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Sunday 3rd April is Mothering Sunday in the UK but this isn’t the celebration that has tongues wagging on Google today. The Californian based search engine has rolled out a brand new Doodle to mark the 119th anniversary of the very first Ice Cream Sundae; well the first documented one at least. The first Ice Cream Sundae was made on Sunday 4th April 1892 in Ithaca,...
Google has marked Harry Houdini’s 137th Birthday with a retro looking Google Doodle. Houdini was born on 24th March in 1874, his real name Ehrich Weisz was replaced with his stage name – Harry Houdini. Houdini was famous for a variety of spectacular escape tricks of which his most famous was the Chinese Water Torture Cell. Houdini was suspended above the tank restrained...
So what’s special about Saturday 19th February 2011? Well it’s the 135th birthday of Constantin Brancusi of course and like many great figures from history he has become the latest to receive Google’s top honour – his very own Google Doodle. The Constantin Brancusi Doodle Today’s Doodle showcases some of the different sculptures Brancusi created, as a fitting...
You may have noticed that today’s Google Doodle is celebrating the life and work of Jane Austen, born on 16th December 1775. Austen is known for a large variety of famous works including, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility and perhaps most of all for Pride and Prejudice. Today’s Google Doodle depicts a country scene with two suitably dressed individuals, one lady...
The Google doodle is becoming quite a common feature on the world’s biggest search engine and I for one enjoy waking up to see a fresh new logo on the Google homepage. Saturday 13th November saw the big G celebrate the 160th birthday of Robert Louis Steven Stevenson. Stevenson is the genius writer who penned classic stories such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and...
There is a lot of buzz and excitement in the air about this weeks Google Doodles, yesterday we talked about the Google Dots/bubbles logo rumoured to link to a new standard in CSS. Today sees the Google doodle in a plain guise that fills with the glorious Google colours as you type your search query in the search box. As always rumours have started about what this could...
Earlier in the year Google started to display a daily doodle/logo change on their website to add a little fun and to educate people on important events that were either happening or had happened in the past. September 7th 2010 sees Google showing off the possibilities of css code in the form of bouncing and flitting dots that react to the movement of the mouse curser....