Today on the Google home page is a special Mother's Day logo for all moms out there. This logo, or Google Doodle, as Google calls them, has a little more detail than the previous years. The logo is completely interactive allowing users to create up to 27 different pieces of art with 3 border types. The logo itself takes you through a series of options, asking you the following questions: Do you want to draw Mom, flowers, or maybe create some kind of gift, gesture, or way of spending time together? If you choose to draw Mom, would you prefer a stick-figure, maybe a Mama Bird, or per [...]

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Google is celebrating the work of graphic designer Saul Bass today, giving him his very own Doodle video complete with a musical composition by composer Dave Brubeck. Born in New York City on May 8, 1920, Saul Bass made a career creating iconic film posters, title sequences and corporate logos. Many know Bass's work from the title sequence of The Man with the Golden Arm, the credit sequence of North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho. Bass worked with many of Hollywood's great directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, [...]

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Beginning today and lasting through May 10, Google is asking users to vote for the best Doodle submitted by elementary and secondary school students from across the country. According to Google's announcement, more than 130,000 submissions were received with fifty state winners selected as national finalists to compete for the 2013 Doodle 4 Google national winner. Google has been hosting the annual Doodle 4 Google contest since 2008. This year's national winner will receive a $30,000 college scholarship, along with a trip to New York City for the final awards ceremony, a Google Chromebook, [...]

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Today's Google logo is a tribute to Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald who was born in Newport News, Virginia on this day in 1917. After taking the stage at Apollo Theater's amateur night in 1934, Fitzgerald went on to become one of the most famous Jazz singers in the world, winning 18 Grammy Awards and selling more than 40 million albums. Fitzgerald performed with a number musicians throughout her career including Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Count Bassie and Frank Sinatra. Dubbed The First Lady of Song, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan in 1987, giv [...]

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Today's Google logo celebrates Earth Day with a new interactive doodle highlighting the many wonders of nature. The logo comes with its very own checklist of things to see, making sure users catch every detail. Google is spelled with different elements of nature from the field of dandelions that makes the "G" to the cave openings for the "Os" and a stream of water and tree for the remaining letters. By hitting the play button, the doodle moves from day to night and through the four seasons. Clicking on various objects within the doodle displays animals and weather changes. The doodle was [...]

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Google is honoring the life of Leonhard Euler, a renowned Swiss mathematician who is credited with founding the concepts of most modern math including the notion of a mathematical function. On April 15, 1707 - 306 years ago today - Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland. Seventy-six years later, he died on September 18, 1783 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. By many, he was known as the most important mathematician to live in the 18th century. His knowledge and contributions were very encompassing within the math field, from infinitesimal calculus to graph theory. He also was much res [...]

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Maria Sibylla Merian, an entomologist and scientific historian who painted the plants and insects that she studied, is being honored today with a new Google logo (aka Google doodle) on what would've been her 366th birthday. Merian's Wikipedia page shines a light on her importance to science: She published three collections of engravings of plants in 1675, 1677, and 1680. Afterward she studied insects, keeping her own live specimens, and made drawings showing insect metamorphosis, in which all life stages of the insect (egg, larva, pupa, and adult) were depicted in the same drawing. [...]

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If you visit Google today, on Easter Sunday, you will see a logo for Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, would have been 86 years old today. He is most well known for his work as a Latino American civil rights activist. He was also co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association and a labor leader. Chavez was a Roman Catholic who had major influence and respect throughout America and the Latino community. On his 86th birthday and on Easter Sunday, Google pays respect to his contributions with a Google Logo, aka Google Doodle. I must say, some are not happy not to see [...]

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Today is St. Patrick's Day and to celebrate, Google has a fun Google Logo, aka Google Doodle, with Irish Dancers doing their Irish dance. Of course, the logo spells out Google's name, GOOGLE on the dancer's shirts. Here is a video of them dancing: For more St. Patrick's Day logos and themes, see the Search Engine Roundtable. Other Interactive Google Logos: Google Does Thanksgiving Logo Early, First Ever One Sharable On Google+ Google “I Love Lucy” Logo For Lucille Ball’s 100th Birthday Google’s World’s Fair Logo For 160th Anniversary Early Look, Google’s [...]

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For many, the Google Doodle, the interactive Google Logo, is just a fun representation of what Adam Douglas contributed to the world with his Hitchhikers Guide trilogy. You can play with the Google logo to unlock messages from his writings. But, toward the end of the logo, Google sneaks in one deeper Easter Egg. Here it is: 42? If you search Google for [answer to life the universe and everything] what is the answer? 42. Why? Well, that is the answer to the meaning of life from his book. In the book, he had a "Deep Thought" to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the [...]

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Today, on 86 different local versions of the Google home page, including Google.com USA, Google has posted a logo to honor International Women's Day. The logo is made up of all different kinds of female faces, not specifically famous people, just all the different shapes and colors of women. In classic Google Doodle fashion, it makes the shape and form of the Google letters throughout the logo. The logo was designed by Doodler Betsy Bauer, who illustrated the logo from the ground up. She explained: The idea for the final illustration came to me while I was doing one of my favorite t [...]

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Google is honoring the late Miriam Makeba with a special doodle today, on what would have been her 81st birthday. Makeba, known around the world as Mama Africa, died on November 9, 2008 after a performance in Italy. She had a very successful musical career that included stints with the Manhattan Brothers, a female group called the Skylarks, and roles in South African theater -- all before she launched a solo career that included performances with Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon. She was also an outspoken opponent of apartheid in her native country of South Africa. The government there [...]

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Google has a very artistic logo on their home page today for the 88th birthday of illustrator and writer Edward Gorey. Edward Gorey, who died at the age of 75 on April 15, 2000, would have turned 88 years old today. The Chicago-born illustrator and artist is well-known for his works on The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Doubtful Guest. He is also known for being a puzzling man who never married and never had a desire for a relationship. Google's logo, one of the widest logo's I've seen in a Google Doodle, represents Edward Gorey's work, style and passion. You can learn more about Gore [...]

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Google is celebrating the 540th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician and astronomer who was the man who came up with Heliocentrism. As you can see, the Google logo is of Heliocentrism, where the planets revolve around the sun and the sun is stationary at the center of the Solar System. Today being Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th birthday, Google felt it was a good way to celebrate his life contributions to the world. The Doodle is worldwide across all Google properties. Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Toruń (Thorn), Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland on February 19, 14 [...]

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Google prepared -- and briefly was showing -- a special logo in honor of today's near miss with Asteroid 2012 DA14. However, the company removed that out of respect, following the meteor explosion over Russia. Below, you can see the logo -- or "doodle" as Google calls them -- that was intended to run today on Google. It shows an asteroid plunging down toward the second G in Google, which dodges out of the way: The logo above should show the animation, but if it doesn't, here's one part of it: Search Engine Land news editor Barry Schwartz was one of several who spotted it briefly. [...]

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Featured on Google home pages worldwide today is an ultra special Google Doodle not just for Valentine's Day but also for the 154th birthday of George W.G. Ferris Jr., the inventor of the Ferris Wheel. This year's Google Valentine's Day logo has tons of layers behind it. It is a Valentine's Day logo, it is a birthday logo for George Ferris, it is an animated logo, and it is one of Google's most artistic logos I've seen in a while. Google Ferris Wheel Logo Video Here is a video of the Google Ferris Wheel in action. Notice how when you press the heart, the Ferris Wheel spins and matches [...]

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Google has a Google Logo, aka Google Doodle, today for Mary Leakey's 100th birthday. Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist and anthropologist who earned hear fame after discovering the first fossilized Proconsul skull. The Proconsul skull is of an extinct ape which is believed to be from humans descent. She is also credited with discovering the Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge, developing a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai, and discovering the Laetoli footprints. In her 83 years of life, she has contributed a lot to the field of archaeology. She [...]

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Google.com is featuring a special Google logo, Google Doodle, for the 94th birthday of Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson is not simply being featured because of his outstanding career in Major League Baseball but because of his influence in the civil rights movement. He was the first black player in Major League Baseball, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He was also the first black sports announcer for ABC in 1965. He had an outstanding baseball career with a batting average of .311, 1,518 hits, 137 home runs, 734 runs batted in and 197 stolen bases with six World Series appearances, [...]

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Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, a Federal holiday where we mark the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. The holiday is always observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of his birthday, on January 15th. To remember his life, contributions and the future he envisions, Google has a yearly Google Doodle for the day. Today, the Doodle is in shades of blue, green and yellow. With Dr. King's face as one of the "O"s in the Google logo. Google has had a Martin Luther King, Jr. logo since 2003, skipping some years but being consisten [...]

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Google has a special worldwide logo, aka Doodle, for Frank Zamboni's 112th birthday. The interactive Doodle allows searchers to play the Zamboni game by cleaning the ice after it is being used by children, hockey players and ice dancers. Frank Zamboni invented the Zamboni ice resurfacer in 1949, and it's found on virtually every ice skating rink across the world. Here is a video of me playing the game: This is an extremely fun Google logo, one of the few game oriented Google logos we've had. Past Interactive Google Logos: Google Logo Boldly Goes With Interactive Star Trek [...]

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