St. Patrick’s Day Google Logo Brings Dancing Shamrocks To The Homepage

For the second day in a row, Google has replaced its homepage logo with a doodle – today’s marking St. Patrick’s Day.

Designed by Irish animation director Eamonn O’Neill, the animated St. Patrick’s Day logo features dancing clovers playing instruments – but, no sound.

The logo includes sharing icons to post on your social media pages, and clicking it leads to ‘St. Patrick’s Day’ search results.

Along with the logo, Google has also added a link on its homepage encouraging users to, “…discover more of Ireland this St. Patrick’s Day” that opens the following Google.com/maps search for ‘Ireland Highlights’:

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