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Akira Kurosawa Gets A Google Doodle, But Not On Google.com

If you visit Google UK, Google Israel or many of the international Google properties, you will find a special Google Doodle for Akira Kurosawa. Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and producer, he was awarded the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1989. He was known as “one of the most important and influential […]

Barry Schwartz on March 23, 2010 at 6:25 am

If you visit Google UK, Google Israel or many of the international Google properties, you will find a special Google Doodle for Akira Kurosawa. Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and producer, he was awarded the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1989. He was known as “one of the most important and influential of all filmmakers,” as stated in Wikipedia. Today is his 100th birthday and Google made a “Doodle” to remember him. But that Doodle is not on Google.com.

Here is a picture:

I am not sure why it is not on Google.com and it is on Google.co.uk and many other international properties.

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