Pin Itemailprint If you live anywhere outside the U.S., you’re seeing a unique, animated Google Doodle today paying homage to the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury. Mercury would have turned 65 years old today, but the singer died on November 24, 1991 from complications caused by AIDS. The Freddie Mercury Google logo will not run [...]
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Summer. It turns me upside down. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, today, June 21, is the first day of summer (in the Northern Hemisphere). Google is celebrating the day with a special logo (called a “Google Doodle”) by contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, who is renowned for his “Superflat” style that mimics Japanese animation and [...]
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What manner of sorcery is this? Google seems to have gone all out with today’s Google Doodle. The company has decided to commemorate the 96th birthday of guitar legend Les Paul with a fully playable Google guitar logo. The logo lets you “play” the guitar by plucking at the various strings, and even lets you [...]
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Just fifty years ago, the race to get a man into space was on, and Russia’s Yuri Gagarin became the first person to successfully do it. His space mission made headlines around the world on April 12, 1961. Today, Google has honored that landmark achievement with a special, worldwide Google Doodle. YouTube is also getting [...]
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There’s something cooking over at Google today. The search giant has replaced its usual logo with a giant Bunsen burner “Google Doodle” to commemorate the birthday of its co-inventor, Robert Bunsen. Thing is, Bunsen’s birthday was yesterday, March 30, so I’m not sure why Google has this special logo up today. Maybe it just wasn’t [...]
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Google has rolled out a special “Google Doodle” today commemorating what would have been the 137th birthday of renowned escape artist and illusionist Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz on March 24, 1874. He was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer who became famous for his amazing [...]
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Google is celebrating the 135th birthday of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi with a special Google Doodle that features seven of his sculptures. Brancusi was born February 19, 1876 in Romania and died on March 16, 1957 in Paris. He trained initially as a carpenter and stonemason. He settled in Paris in 1904 where his early [...]
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Today is Jules Verne‘s birthday, as you might have guessed from having a quick look at the Google logo today. The special, interactive “Google Doodle” is a nod to the Nautilus, the vessel from Verne’s classic sci-fi novel “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. Google Doodler Jennifer Horn says she wanted to honor Jules Verne because [...]
“What I’d like to do someday” is the theme for the fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest, which kicked off yesterday. The contest is for U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade and the winner will have their design featured as the logo on Google’s home page. The winner will also receive a $15,000 scholarship [...]
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In was on this date 50 years ago, January 20, 1961, that John F. Kennedy gave his one and only inaugural address. While many consider it to be one of the greatest speeches in history, the John F. Kennedy inaugural address lasted only about 13 minutes. In it, he coined the popular line: “Ask not [...]
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Hollywood celebrities aren’t the only ones celebrating the New Year. Google is celebrating the ushering in of 2011 with a special Google Doodle. The usual multicolored Google logo has been modified with fireworks and a few letters replaced with Roman numbers (GMMXIe). So what the heck does that mean? Well MMXI is the Roman numeral [...]
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Google is celebrating the holidays with a bang this year, today unveiling its most complex Google Doodle ever. This year’s holiday Google Doodle was cooked up by Michael Lopez, whose title is “chief doodler”. The logo depicts seventeen holiday works of art from around the world, each one clickable and expandable. It’s truly a holiday [...]
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