Google has announced the 6th annual Doodle 4 Google competition where children can earn win a $30,000 college scholarship, and a $50,000 technology grant for their school - amongst other prizes. This year's theme is "My Best Day Ever..." where the Doodle should represent ideas of what would be their best day ever. Google created this video to help inspire some creative Doodles: The competition opened last night for students in grades K through 12 in the United States. The entries must be received by Google by March 22nd. On May 1st, Google will open up the finalists to public vote an [...]

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Today on Google's home page, you will find a special logo for New Year's Day. The logo represents what most people and venues are doing during the day after New Year's Eve - cleaning up. Here is today's logo showing how the Google logo is cleaning itself up for tomorrow: Here was the logo from yesterday: Happy, Healthy & Successful 2013! Other Google Logos: Google’s Doodle Of Doodles For New Years Eve 2012 The Thinker Google Doodle For Auguste Rodin’s Birthday Google & Bing’s Thanksgiving Day Home Pages Google & Bing’s 2012 Veterans Day Logos The Goo [...]

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If you visit Google today, New Years Eve, you will see a very busy Google logo. The logo makes up many of the best Google Doodles created in 2012. In a sense, it is a Google Doodle of Google Doodles. The Google Logo links to the specific Google Doodles directly in the Google Doodle Directory. For example, if you click on the Star Trek icon at the top left, it takes you to the Star Trek Doodle. Websonic.nl put together a diagram labeling all the Doodles: Happy New Years everyone! Other Google Logos: The Thinker Google Doodle For Auguste Rodin’s Birthday Google & [...]

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Google is featuring a Google logo, aka Doodle, for the holiday season this morning. The logo is incredibly happy and festive, with lots of colors and Christmas like characters and activities within the logo that makes up the letters in Google's name. The logo can be found worldwide today, December 24th, on Christmas Eve. But when I peek ahead at Google Australia, where it is already Christmas day, I currently do not see a special holiday logo for Christmas. Maybe Google will surprise us? Like every year, there is some concern that Google doesn't say "Merry Christmas" as opposed to "H [...]

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Google's home page, worldwide, features a special interactive fairy tale like logo for the 200th anniversary of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. The Doodle lets you click through some of the more recognized fairy tales and it eventually will take you to a search result for [Brothers Grimm]. That result contains the Google Knowledge graph on the right hand side, where you can learn more about the topic and see additional images. Here is a video of the logo in action: It is a very animated, colorful and fun looking Google Doodle. Other Google Logos: The Thinker Google Dood [...]

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The holiday season is now in full swing! Google has finally added the Christmas and Kwanzaa decorations to compliment the Festivus pole and Hanukkah decorations you already get on Google. How does it work? Just search for [christmas] and you will get Christmas bells. Note, this also works for [santa] and other holiday search terms: You can also now search for [kwanzaa] and get the Kwanzaa candles: Of course, the Hanukkah and Festivus searches all work still. [...]

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Today on Google is a special logo, aka Google Doodle, for Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace was born 197 years ago today and invented the first algorithm or computer program in 1842. That means she invented the first program 170 years ago! In her very short life of 36 years she was able to see the future by writing the algoritm. She was a mathematician and also a writer who was hired to write notes on the Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage. Her notes ended up being the first algorithm and computer programmer ever written. Thus she became known as the first computer programmer ever - [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving Day! Both Google and Bing has special logos and themes up on their home pages today. Google has a Google Doodle representing the Thanksgiving Day parade, with the Google letters as hot air ballons. Bing has a Turkey getting a warm kiss from a friend: For some reason, Yahoo doesn't have a special logo up today - which is not typical of Yahoo. But Dogpile, AOL, and Ask.com have logos. Last year, Google had a Thanksgiving Day logo that was their first sharable Doodle ever. Related Logos: Google Does Thanksgiving Logo Early, First Ever One Sharable On Go [...]

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Google is celebrating the life of French sculpter Auguste Rodin on his 172nd birthday today. The sculpture Google is using to remember his life is one of his most famous sculptures named The Thinker. The Thinker was finished in 1902, but not presented publicly until 1904. It is currently located at Musée Rodin, Paris but was briefly displayed in the U.S. at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. Wikipedia documents the places the sculpture has sit over the years amongst other versions of it. Auguste Rodin was born in Paris in 1840 and died on November 17, 1917 at the age of 77 in [...]

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Google and Bing have special logos and themes today to honor the United States of America's Veterans on the US .com versions of their web sites. Both search engines typically have logos for this special day, but for some reason, Yahoo does not have a special logo today. In any event, here are the logos from Google and Bing: For last year's Google's Veterans logo see this post. Other Logos: For Halloween, Google Makes Bats Appear For Horror Movie Searches Google’s Interactive “Happy Halloween” Logo For 2012 The Google Dracula Logo: Bram Stoker Books Google Logo Honor [...]

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Is that Dracula on Google's home page today? Yes it is. Today is the 165th birthday of the late Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, a gothic novel. Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 8, 1847 and died at the age of 64 in London on April 20, 1912. To celebrate his life and bringing Dracula, one of the most famous stories, to the world, Google has a special Google Doodle for him. When you click on the Google Doodle, the Google Dracula logo, you are taken to a search result for Bram Stoker books which shows off Google's new carousel feature. This is similar to how Go [...]

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It's Election Day in the United States, and Google is marking the occasion with a special ballot box logo. It's more than a pretty picture, however. The logo also helps people find their local polling place. Click on the logo, and you'll get a prompt to enter your address and find your voting place: That, in turn, leads to the special Google elections page where your voting place will be shown, along with other information that's accessible:   Related Articles Google Launches US Election Hub Website Democrats Like To Mix Politics & Social Media More Than Republicans, Indep [...]

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Not happy with just running an interactive Halloween logo today, Google also has an "easter egg" surprise. Searches for some horror movies bring up sleeping bats that fly away with a click. For example, here's what appears in a search for "Nightmare On Elm Street," over the knowledge graph box about the movie: Click on the bats, and they fly away: These also appear for other films like "The Shining," "Halloween 1978" and Aliens, as you can see below:  Here's a video of the bats in flight: [youtube width="560" height="315"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y04UtNav13I[/yout [...]

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It's Halloween, and Google's got a special logo to celebrate the day. Click away to reveal ghosts of the not-so-scary kind to spell out Google! At first the logo looks kind of sad, just a deserted street scene:  But as you click on the various doors, ghosts are revealed that begin to spell the Google logo: Eventually, you can spell out the entire name "Google" in ghosts, by clicking on doors: If the noise bothers you, click on the mute button by the tree in the lower right corner. When you've opened all the doors, a black cat appears from the trash cans on the left slide. [...]

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Google is running a special logo today to honor Bob Ross, painter, art instructor and host of "The Joy Of Painting," which aired for over a decade in the US and Canada. Ross's show ran from 1983 through 1994, when he stopped to fight lymphoma, which he later died from in 1995, at age 52. He was born on October 29, 1942. Today's "Google Doodle" logo honors what would have been his 70th birthday. You can read more about Ross's life in his Wikipedia entry here. PBS also recently released a "Happy Little Clouds" remix of Ross using video from some of his shows. It's sweet. You can watch it b [...]

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Google's Moby Dick logo celebrates the 161st anniversary of The Whale novel written by author Herman Melville. There are two special points to be made about the implementation of this logo: (1) Google purposely is taking searches who click on the logo to a search result for [Herman Melville books] which brings up the Google Knowledge Graph Carousel. Clearly, Google wants searchers to become more familiar with this new search feature. (2) Like the last Google Doodle, i.e. Little Nemo Google Logo, Google is celebrating the thing, i.e. the book or the comic strip, as opposed to th [...]

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Google is celebrating the 107th anniversary of the comic strip by Winsor McCay named Little Nemo. The comic strip originated on October 15, 1905 in the New York Herald and continued through July 26, 1914 at William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspaper. This is Google's first comic strip logo, where you click on the logo and the strip continues. Now, it is also rare in that Google is not celebrating the life of the creator but rather the creation's anniversary. So instead of celebrating Winsor McCay birth on October 13th, Google is celebrating the Little Nemo debute on October [...]

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Google has a special logo on their home page for Niels Bohr's 127th birthday. Niels Bohr is known as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. To pay tribute to his contributions, Google has a scientific Google Doodle for him. Some of his contributions include Copenhagen interpretation, Complementarity, Bohr model, Sommerfeld–Bohr theory, BKS theory, Bohr-Einstein debates and Bohr magneton. He and his son Aage received Nobel Prizes, Neils in 1922 for Physics and his son Aage in 1975 for Physics as well. Neils Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 7, 1 [...]

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Today is Google's 14th birthday and to celebrate Google has a special animated logo of a cake with 14 candles being eaten up. We have a copy of the Google Birthday logo, aka Google Doodle, on the right side of this page. For the past ten years, Google has posted birthday logos to celebrate their birthday. Here are the past birthday logos from Google: Google’s 13th birthday logo: Google’s 12th birthday logo: Google’s 11th birthday logo: Google’s 10th birthday logo: Google’s 9th birthday logo: Google’s 8th birthday logo: G [...]

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Google has a special global Google logo, Doodle, for Clara Schumann. Clara Schumann was born 193 years ago today in Germany and is well known for her work as a composer and as a Pianists. In fact, Wikipedia writes she is known as the most "distinguished pianists of the Romantic era." In her long career, she changed the profession and art by adapting the format and repertoire of the piano recital. She was one of the first to perform from memory, which is now a standard and she was one of the first to perform publicly the works of Brahms. She mostly played Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, [...]

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