New Delhi: We often come across almost all major Google Doodles on the Google India homepage, but, this time, Google has disappointed its Indian followers. Google often marks special occasions with its innovative and interactive doodles, but today on May 1, when India is celebrating the economic and social achievements of workers in the form of Labour Day, Google's lack of interest is evident - there is no Labour Day...
03:21 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: With a view to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers, Google has posted a Labour Day-themed doodle on its Russia homepage (www.google.ru) and Philippines homepage (www.google.ph). So, if you open any of them, you will be greeted with the Labour Day doodle in place of Google's usual logo. The doodle features a worker, which looks like an engineer, lifting up the metallic Google logo. The labourer...
11:00 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Gideon Sundback invented the zip, a product that has been holding together much of the parts of our lives for about a century now. And Google has paid a tribute to the man with a an unzippable doodle on this 132nd birthday. Google Gideon Sundback's 132nd birthday doodle gives the appearance of a jacket front that has the Google logo embroidered on it and a zip runs through...
03:00 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: If you are a Firefox user, you might not be allowed to play with the new, interactive zipper Google doodle. This is because the new zipper Google doodle does not seem to be fully compatible with the Firefox browser. To mark the 132nd birth anniversary of Gideon Sundback, Google posted an interactive doodle on the home page that features a giant zipper running down the centre of the...
12:50 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: As you click on the doodle on the Google home page, honouring Gideon Sundback, the page unzips to reveal a search engine results page on the Swedish-born engineer. Sundback's invention, the zipper, has been holding together much of the parts of our lives for about a century now. Sundback (born April 24, 1880) had emigrated to the United States a job switch later, he started working for a...
08:31 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: To mark the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, Google has posted a flower-themed Google Doodle on its home page. As you open the Google homepage, you will be greeted with a colourful doodle that features an animated image of blooming flowers in purple, red and yellow colours that spell Google. The doodle beautifully portrays the flowers blooming out of the shurbs to form the Google logo. Earth Day...
12:24 PM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: French photographer Robert Doisneau would have turned 100 on Saturday. To commemorate his birth centenary, Google has come up with a collage of four of his most famous photographs in the form of a Google doodle. Doisneau (born April 14, 1912) was noted for his lyrical approach to street photography. His most famous photograph Le baiser de l'hotel de ville (Kiss by the Hotel de Ville) shot in...
02:34 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: The series of galloping horse images on the Google home page that seems to spring to life at the press of the play button is there as it is the 182nd birth anniversary of Eadweard J Muybridge (the J stands for James), the man behind the first ever galloping horse moving image (also the American bison cantering and more). A man of many names, he began his life...
02:06 AM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: The doodle on March 27 is the 27th Google doodle in the month of March. This marks the 126th birth anniversary of the German-born American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Popularly known as Ludwig Mies, he was born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies on March 27, 1886 in Aachen, Germany. After Ludwig Mies had established himself as an architect and his marriage failed he added his maternal surname...
12:49 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: To commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Spanish painter Juan Gris, the third Musketeer of Cubism (Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were the other two) Google has painted a cubist doodle on its home page. Jos Victoriano Gonzlez, better known as Juan Gris (his pseudonym), was an important exponent of the second phase of cubism known as High Cubism and his dominant style was Synthetic Cubism. The abstract...
01:23 AM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The day Arab countries welcome spring is also celebrated as Mother's Day in western Asia and Egypt. To commemorate the Arab Mother's Day, Google has put up a Mother's Day doodle on its home pages in Arab countries including Egypt, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The doodle that Google has posted for the Arab Mother's Day on March 21 is...
09:23 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: March 20 marks the arrival of the spring season in the northern hemisphere. This date is also referred to as the vernal or spring equinox in the northern hemisphere and the fall or autumnal equinox in the southern hemisphere. Google has put up its 2012 spring equinox doodle on its home pages in European and North American countries and not on home pages of countries such as India...
01:23 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: For the 101st birth anniversary of origami grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa, Google has posted a paper folding doodle on its homepage. Japanese artist Akira Yoshizawa (born March 14, 1911; died March 14, 2005) revived the ancient Japanese art of paper folding called origami. It was though Yoshizawa's efforts that the art became an international rage. Because of his worldwide popularity Yoshizawa also served as a cultural ambassador of Japan...
10:05 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Google users from India should be excused if they at the first glance, mistook the International Women's Day doodle to be a Holi doodle. The colourful feel to the Google logo has a Holi feel about it. However the symbol of Venus is the giveaway (in addition to the title text and the link of the image, but we tend to notice them a little later). This year's...
03:58 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: For a day that comes rarely to the calendar, Google has doodled a rare two-in-one doodle that commemorates not only the leap day but also the 220th birth anniversary of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Since the leap years and leap days are usually associated with frogs, the leaping ambhibians, the Google doodle on February 29 has a number of frogs, all four of them. The doodle is...
01:23 AM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Google has put up a doodle on its Kuwaiti home page to commemorate Kuwait's 51st Independence Day. Kuwait was a British protectorate from 1899 until 25 February 1961. The Google doodle for Kuwait Independence Day is inspired by the emblem of Kuwait which was adopted after the independence of the country in 1962. The emblem includes a dhow (traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts) sailing in...
12:46 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Google recreates the long journey that Ibn Battuta undertook seven centuries ago on the doodle that it put up on its home page in the Arab countries to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Moroccan explorer. Regarded as the greatest medieval Arab traveller and his book the Rihlah describes his travels that covered more than 120,000 kilometres tha covered an areas of 44 modern countries. Ibn Battuta had...
11:59 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Google logo takes the form of electromagnetic waves (in Google colours - blue, red, yellow and green) to pay tribute to German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz on his 155th birth anniversary. Hertz was born at Hamburg on February 22, 1857. Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves. His pioneering work laid the way for the development of radio, television and radar. The unit of...
12:45 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: It's a music video doodle on the Google home page this Valentine's Day. The Valentine's Day Google doodle is in the form of a short animated love story of a boy trying to woo a girl set to Tony Bennett's rendition of Hank Williams' classic blues ballad Cold, Cold Heart. The default image of the doodle is of the boy holding a Valentine with the Google logo on...
09:11 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era features famous characters from Charles Dickens' novels. The British author created unforgettable characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield. The doodle with a Victorian feel does not link to the usual Google search engine results but since it's about Dickens it instead directs users to the Google Books results page...
09:21 AM, Feb 07, 2012
