Many times opening Google home page we have scratched our
heads thinking why Google has changed its logo. Google is following it as a
rule to display special kind of logo instead of its regular blue, red, yellow
and green color combination logo on birthdays of celebrities or scientists
contributed for the advancement of human life and also on special occasions. The logos placed on such occasions are
popularly called as ‘Doodles’.
Doodles have become popular over time and even some time
back Google has arranged competition for children on designing Doodles. The
concept of doodle was initially designed by its founders itself in 1998. But
the name Doodle came after a longtime. As mentioned in the Google’s official
website, first time the Doodle was used when the founders Sergery Bin and Larry
Page went to attend Burning Man festival at Nevada desert. Their absence at the
office was indicated by them by placing a stick figure drawing behind the
second ‘o’ in the company name intended to make users understand that founders
are out of office. The actual logo used by them for the out of office purpose
can be found here.
Actually doodle gained prominence when Dennis Hwang
developed a design for Google logo on ‘Bastille Day’. Later Dennis Hwang, who
joined Google as intern was made in-charge of Doodle and later on the occurrence
of such doodles were often on the Google website.
Doodle is fun and many love to see them on the home page of
Google. The collection of Doodles can be found here.
Personally, I liked the interactive Doodle electric guitar
published on June 09 2011 to celebrate 96th birthday of Musician and
inventor Les Paul. A student project which was initiated to perform efficient data
mining in an university campus has become so popular and ruling the majority of
web world as giant!
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