New Delhi: Forgot to pick that Mother's Day card for your Mom? Don't worry, you can create one with the Mother's Day Google doodle visible on the Google home pages in 52 countries on the second Sunday of May.
With Google's card building machine doodle you can create 27 different cards for your mother with a choice of three borders (a total of 81). Google has also added a first-of-its-kind feature on a Google doodle, the ability to take a high-resolution printout for your creations.
You can also share your doodle card on Google Plus with the message, "I made a Mother's Day card on the Google homepage! #mothersdaydoodle".
The Mother's Day doodle was the brainchild of Google doodler Mike Dutton and Google engineer Joey Hurst, who helped created iconic Google doodles such as the Moog Synthesiser and Les Paul guitar, brought the idea of digital life....
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09:23 AM, May 12, 2013
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10:55 AM, Oct 13, 2012
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06:03 PM, Sep 15, 2012
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11:39 AM, Jun 21, 2012
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11:55 AM, Jun 19, 2012
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08:57 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: If you are planning to drop into the neighbourhood greetings card store on the Mother's Day eve, think again. At least that's what the founder of the Mother's Day would have liked you to do. Anna Jarvis, who started a campaign on May 12, 1907, to see the day officially being recognised in the US in 2014 dissociated herself from what Mother's Day had become by 1920. Anna's...
12:49 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: It's the second Sunday of May and Google is wishing all the mothers with its characteristic doodle on Mother's Day. In the animated doodle on the Google home page the two Os in the Google logo turn into kids and give their mother - the second G - a purple flower. Google has been celebrating Mother's Day with its doodles for a number of years now and the...
07:30 AM, May 13, 2012
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12:52 PM, Jan 24, 2012
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11:30 PM, Jan 19, 2012
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12:23 PM, Sep 01, 2011
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