If you had go guess how old Google was, what would you say? Would you be surprised to learn that the search giant, as of today, has been organising the World Wide Web for 14 years? This momentous occasion has been marked with a splendiferous Google Doodle. The Doodle depicts a birthday cake with 14 candles upon it. The doodle then rearranges itself after being munched away so all fourteen are displayed below in a neat little tally. As with other Doodles the famous letters of the Google logo are used; this time in cake crumb form. The...
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The London 2012 Olympics kicked off today with the opening ceremony which include live performances from Sir Paul Mccartney, The Arctic Monkeys alongside cameos from David Beckham, Brad Pitt, Rowen Atkinson and Daniel Craig to name but a few. Google has also carried on their daily tradition of adding a themed Doodle; todays revolves around archery and features a female archer aiming at a Google target. This isn’t the first time the search giant has honored the Olympics; in fact it’s a tradition which stretches back to the Sydney games...
Internet search giant Google Inc. celebrates the 78th birth anniversary of Robert ‘Bob’ Moog, an American electrical engineer, with an interactive Google Doodle. Bob Moog is the father of the modern electronic synthesizer and in place of the Google logo in the site’s homepage is a digital recreation of the Moog synthesizer. Users of the Google Chrome browser will enjoy playing and making music just for today. Google.com visitors can play with the digital synthesizer using the QWERTY keys, while the arrow keys will let...
People are logging on all over the world to find a brand new Doodle on the Google homepage. This time it is celebrating the 138th Birthday of Howard Cater, the archaeologist which sprang to worldwide fame for discovering Tutankhamun’s lost tomb in Egypt. Marking the big occasion The Doodle comes 90 years after Carter made his startling find and as a fitting tribute the moment is captured as a freeze frame. Unlike previous special Doodle this one simply places a shadow of Googles seven letters in the background behind the tomb, sarcophagus,...
Google is now celebrating the life and the 125th birth anniversary of Jose Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez, also known as Juan Gris, a Spanish painter famous for his cubism works. Users who visit the Google home page today will be greeted with a Cubism-themed doodle. Just like Google Doodles of the past, clicking on the image will take you to the search results for “Juan Gris.” Juan Gris was an important part of cubism’s second phase, which is known as High Cubism, and his style was Synthetic Cubism. Cubism is considered as...
Online search giant Google is celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera with one of its doodles. Users who visit the Google homepage are greeted with a Google Doodle with the art style of Rivera that replaces the logo of Google. The large wall works of Rivera in fresco are believed to have helped start the Mexican Mural Movement. History Born in Guanajuato, Mexico on December 8, 1886, Rivera studied art in Mexico City and relocated to Spain to continue his studies. He then went to Paris and became...
Google has replaced their usual colorful logo with an animated Doodle to mark the 60th anniversary of the first ever book written by Stanislaw LEM. The Doodle has been hailed as the best ever among many journalists and the general public have taken kindly to it as well. The Stanislaw LEM Google Doodle The Doodle begins with a hand drawn man which resembles Stanislaw himself. The character begins to walk and discovers a robot. The robots chest opens to reveal a console which allows users to solve the number problem above. Once all the problems...
Google is celebrating today the 224th birth anniversary of Louis Daguerre, the French physicist and artist responsible for inventing the daguerreotype process of photography. The daguerreotype was the world’s first photographic process to be successful commercially. He was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d’Oise, France. He was an apprentice of French panorama painter Pierre Prévost, and became a successful designer for the theater. After the world’s first permanent photograph was made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce...
Search engine giant Google Inc. is now celebrating the 335th birthday of Edmond Halley, a meteorologist, geophysicist, mathematician and astronomer who accurately predicted the return of a comet that was named after him. The artists at Google have created a logo that depicts the planets, comets, stars and rockets to celebrate the birth of the man who first calculated the orbit of the Halley’s Comet. Halley was born in Haggerston in Shoreditch in 1656. His father was a wealthy soap maker in London and came from a Derbyshire family. He...
Online search giant Google celebrates the 144th birth anniversary of physicist-chemist Marie Curie with the company’s patented Google Doodle. Today, the site’s visitors will see a doodle of Marie Curie sitting with her laboratory apparatus. When users click on the doodle, they will land on a Google search results page of Marie Curie, including those on NobelPrize.org and Wikipedia. History Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. She received education in local schools, and she received scientific training from...