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Google Doodle

January 26, 2023

For the software service included in Google Workspace, see Google Drawings.

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures. The first Google Doodle honored the 1998 edition of the long-running annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada, and was designed by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed.[1][2][3] Early Marketing employee Susan Wojcicki then spearheaded subsequent Doodles, including an alien landing on Google and additional custom logos for major holidays.[4] Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor until 2000, when Page and Brin asked public relations officer Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day. Since then, a team of employees called "Doodlers" have organized and published the Doodles.[5]

The first Google Doodle, on August 30, 1998, which celebrated Burning Man

Initially, Doodles were neither animated nor hyperlinked—they were simply images with tooltips describing the subject or expressing a holiday greeting. Doodles increased in both frequency and complexity by the beginning of the 2010s. In January 2010 the first animated Doodle honored Sir Isaac Newton.[6] The first interactive Doodle appeared shortly thereafter celebrating Pac-Man,[7] and hyperlinks also began to be added to Doodles, usually linking to a search results page for the subject of the Doodle. By 2014, Google had published over 2,000 regional and international Doodles throughout its homepages,[8] often featuring guest artists, musicians, and personalities.[9] By 2019, the "Doodlers" team had created over 4,000 doodles for Google's homepages around the world.[10]

Overview

In addition to celebrating many well-known events and holidays, Google Doodles celebrate artists and scientists on their birthdays.[11] The featuring of Lowell's logo design coincided with the launch of another Google product, Google Maps. Google Doodles are also used to depict major events at Google, such as the company's own anniversary.[12] The celebration of historic events is another common topic of Google Doodles including a Lego brick design in celebration of the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary. Some Google Doodles are limited to Google's country-specific home pages while others appear globally.[13]

Common themes

 
For New Year's 2014, Google created this animated image depicting dancing numbers.

Since Google first celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with a Doodle in 1998, many Doodles for holidays, events and other celebrations have recurred on an annual basis, including the following:

Doodlers

The illustrators, engineers, and artists who design Google Doodles are called "Doodlers". These doodlers have included artists like Ekua Holmes, Jennifer Hom, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Ranganath Krishnamani, Dennis Hwang, Olivia Fields, and Eric Carle.[17][18][19][20][21][22]

Interactive and notable doodles

 
Google's interactive Pac-Man logo

In May 2010, on the 30th anniversary of the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, Google unveiled worldwide their first interactive logo, created in association with Namco.[23] Anyone who visited Google could play Pac-Man on the logo, which featured the letters of the word "Google" on the Pac-Man maze. The logo also mimicked the sounds the original arcade game made. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button was replaced with an "Insert Coin" button. Pressing this once enabled the user to play the Pac-Man logo. Pressing it once more added a second player, Ms. Pac-Man, enabling two players to play at once, controlled using the W, A, S, D keys, instead of the arrows as used by Player 1. Pressing it for a third time performed an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search. It was then removed on May 23, 2010, initially replacing Pac-Man with the normal logo. Later on that day, Google released[24] a permanent site to play Google Pac-Man (accessed by clicking on top icon), due to the popular user demand for the playable logo.[24] Pac-Man Doodle drew an estimated 1 billion players worldwide.[25]

Since that time, Google has continued to post occasional interactive and video doodles:

2010s

  • On June 8, 2010, Robert Schumann was celebrated with a Google Doodle for his 200th birthday.
  • On September 4, 2010, the Google logo was changed to an interactive Buckyball to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its discovery.[26][27] The Buckyball, also known as the Buckminsterfullerene C60 is a molecule made entirely of carbon.
  • On September 6, 2010, Google launched its fourth interactive Google Doodle. "Google Instant - Particle Logo" replaced its static logo with a JavaScript-based particle movement simulator where dynamic colored balls can be manipulated with the movement of the mouse cursor over the logo, or by shaking of the browser window.[28] Unlike some other Google Doodles, this one is unclickable.[29]
  • On September 7, 2010, another Google Instant family logo known as "Keystroke Logo" was released. Greyed-out colorless logo lit up with the standard Google colors as the first 6 letters of a search query were entered.[30]
  • On October 8, 2010, Google ran its first video doodle, a short animation set to the music of "Imagine" to mark what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday.[31] Similarly, Freddie Mercury's would-be 65th birthday was celebrated on September 5, 2011, with an animated clip set to "Don't Stop Me Now".[32]
  • On April 15, 2011, Google sported the first live-action video doodle, commemorating what would have been Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday.[33] This doodle was a black and white YouTube video that, when clicked upon, started playing before redirecting to the usual Google search featuring the doodle's special occasion. All parts in this short film were played by the Google Doodle team, and special behind-the-scenes footage was to be found on the Google blog.
  • Google displayed an interactive electric guitar doodle starting June 9, 2011, to celebrate the would-be 96th birthday of Les Paul. Apart from being able to hover the cursor over the doodle to strum the strings just like one of Les Paul's Gibson guitars, there was also a keyboard button, which when enabled allowed interaction with the doodle via the keyboard. The doodle still maintained some resemblance to the Google logo. In the U.S, the doodle also allowed the user to record a 30-second clip, after which a URL is created and can be sent to others. The doodle remained on the site an extra day due to popularity in the U.S. It now has its own page linked to the Google Doodles archives.[34]
  • On January 18, 2012, for users in the United States, Google placed a censor bar on top of their logo to protest SOPA and PIPA.
  • On May 23, 2012, for what would have been instrument inventor and synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog's 78th birthday, the Doodle team pulled off their own feat of engineering: a fully playable and recordable Google logo resembling a vintage Minimoog Model D synthesizer. Electronic analog Moog Synthesizer timbre and tones would come to define a generation of music, featuring heavily in songs by The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk and many others. Much like the musical machines Bob Moog created, this doodle was synthesized from a number of smaller components to form a unique instrument. Mouse or computer keyboard was used to control the mini-synthesizer's keys and knobs and fiddle with oscillators and envelopes. Synthesizer doodle patched the keyboard into a 4-track tape recorder that could share songs.[35][36][37]
  • On June 23, 2012, in commemoration of what would have been Alan Turing's 100th birthday, Google's logo became an interactive Turing Machine.[38]
  • On August 8, 2012, Google Displayed an interactive Basketball Game for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
  • On September 13, 2012, Google created a doodle for Clara Schumann to celebrate her 193rd birthday.
  • On November 23, 2013, Google's logo changed to a playable Doctor Who game in honor of the show's 50th anniversary.[39]
  • On May 19, 2014, for the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube, Google made an interactive virtual Rubik's Cube that people could try to solve.
  • On April 14, 2015, for the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express, Google made a playable 2D side-scrolling doodle game in which the player collects mail, avoids obstacles, and delivers up to 100 letters from California to Missouri.[40]
  • On December 17, 2015, a Google Doodle was featured honoring the 245th anniversary of Beethoven's baptism.[41] It features an interactive game to match the musical writing in correct order as it featured 4 levels.
  • On January 22, 2016, for the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville, creator of the Scoville Scale, Google made a playable doodle game in which the player plays as an ice cream cone throwing ice cream scoops at a variety of peppers to neutralize their heat. Gameplay is based on the timing of a mouse click or space bar press which rapidly increases in difficulty. The game features 5 levels, each featuring a different type of pepper (Bell Pepper, Jalapeño Pepper, Cayenne Pepper, Ghost Pepper, and Trinidad Moruga scorpion) and a fun fact about each pepper along with its measured Scoville Heat Units.[42]
  • On August 5, 2016, for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Google app received an update for Android and iOS devices to include 7 mini games called "Doodle Fruit Games" featuring Strawberry, Blueberry, Coconut, Pineapple, and more. It lasted until August 21, with a new mini game every day. The game was accessible on the Google app by clicking on a play button.
  • On October 30, 2016, for Halloween, Google added a game called Magic Cat Academy, featuring a cat named Momo fighting ghosts. To play, users had to click on a play button, and users have to "draw" to kill the ghosts.
  • On February 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2017, for Valentine's Day, Google added a game featuring the endangered pangolin, an African and Asian mammal, that goes through four levels (one released each day), while collecting objects, and avoiding obstacles.
  • On 28 February 2017, Google celebrated Edhi with a Google Doodle hailing his "super-efficient" ambulance service.[43]
  • On May 9, 2017, a Google Doodle was featured honoring the 181st birthday of Ferdinand Monoyer. He was a French ophthalmologist, who introduced the dioptre in 1872. Dioptre is the unit of measurement of the focusing power of the lens. It is like the distance between a person's eyes and the text to be read. Monoyer devised an eye chart where every row represents a different diopter, from smallest to largest. A close look at Doodle may reveal to the reader a tribute to Ferdinand Monoyer:[44] his name, hidden in the chart.
  • On June 22, 2017, to celebrate what would have been the 117th birthday of Oskar Fischinger, a musician, Google released an interactive fullscreen Doodle that let users create their own musical songs by tapping on the screen. The user could then choose to share it to social media. The game was accessible by tapping on 2 play buttons.[45]
  • On August 11, 2017, the 44th anniversary of DJ Kool Herc's pioneering use of the hip hop break, the Google Doodle allowed users use a double turntable to act as a hip-hop DJ.[46]
  • On September 4, 2017, to celebrate what would have been the 83rd birthday of Russian baritone singer Eduard Khil, Google added a video doodle that featured an animated Eduard Khil singing "I am very glad, as I'm finally returning back home", known globally as the "Trololo" song.
  • On December 4, 2017, Google celebrated 50 years of kids' coding languages with an Interactive Doodle.[47][48]
  • On January 29, 2018, Google celebrated Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng on what would have been her 65th birthday.[49]
  • On May 3, 2018, Google celebrated the work of Georges Méliès by making a doodle that encompassed his famous work such as A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage. The doodle is also the first google doodle that was shown in 360-degrees format, with the viewer being able to rotate the video to give them different points of view.[50]
  • On June 10, 2018, Google celebrated the history of garden gnomes by releasing an interactive Doodle where the player can use a catapult to launch their clay gnomes into the farthest reach of their garden.[citation needed]
  • On 15 September 2018, for India, Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya’s 158th Birthday. On whose birthday India celebrates Engineer's day.
  • On October 30, 2018, for Halloween, Google added a multiplayer game called Great Ghoul Duel, featuring two teams of ghosts racing to collect spirits and steal them from the other team.[51] Games can support up to 8 players, and users could create custom invite links or match with random users across the globe. Great Ghoul Duel was the first Doodle to support multiplayer over the internet.[52]
  • On November 6, 2018, for the United States elections, Google changed their logo to "Go Vote."[53]
  • On March 21, 2019, Google celebrated German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach by creating the first Doodle that uses artificial intelligence to make music. When a button is pressed, the Doodle uses machine learning to harmonize a user-created melody into Bach's signature music style (or alternatively into a Bach 80s rock style hybrid if an amp on the right side is clicked).[54]
  • On July 16–20, 2019, Google celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing by NASA where Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon.[55]
  • On 12 August 2019, for India, Google commemorated Vikram Sarabhai's 100th birth anniversary. He is internationally regarded as the Father of the Indian Space Program.[56]

2020s

  • On March 20, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google honored Ignaz Semmelweis for pioneering the practice of hand washing. The Doodle animation specifically showcased how to properly and thoroughly wash one's hands.[57]
    • Google also released several doodles in the following weeks thanking various industry workers who helped people out during the pandemic.
    • Some games were re-released for people staying at home during lockdown to play.[58]
  • On April 22, 2020, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a Doodle game was created in partnership with the Honeybee Conservancy, wherein a honeybee is guided by the player to pollinate flowers, while facts about the honeybee and its impact are shared between levels.[59]
  • On June 30, 2020, Google celebrated Marsha P. Johnson with a Google Doodle.[2]
  • On September 1, 2020, Google honored Jackie Ormes, known for being the first African-American woman cartoonist, along with being the creator of the Torchy Brown comic strip and the Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger panel. The Doodle animation showcased a slideshow of her career.[60]
  • On Halloween, a sequel to the 2016 Halloween Doodle was made. It had similar gameplay, but a different setting (underwater) and focused on sea creatures such as the immortal jellyfish and the anglerfish.
  • On January 15, 2021, Google honored James Naismith, known as the inventor of the game of basketball. The Doodle animation showcases a person making a basket.[61]
  • On March 10, 2021, Google honored Wu Lien-teh, depicting Wu Lien-teh assembling surgical masks and distributing them to reduce the risk of disease transmission.[62][63][64]
  • On June 9, 2021, Google honored Shirley Temple with an animated depiction of her during her career as a child actress alongside her later service as a diplomat.[65]
  • On July 23, 2021, Google released an RPG-style game called Doodle Champion Island Games, with artwork by Studio 4°C, to celebrate video gaming, Japanese folklore, and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.[66][67]
  • On August 14, 2021, Google made a doodle of Derawar Fort to celebrate Pakistan's 75 Independence Day.[68] According to Google, the fort symbolizes Pakistani adaptability and antiquity.[68]
  • On September 2, 2021, Google made a doodle celebrating the 138th birthday of the Polish biologist Rudolf Weigl, known for inventing the epidemic typhus vaccine.[69][70]
  • On September 5, 2021, Olivia When made a doodle celebrating the 107th birthday of the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra,[71] being visible in 15 countries, including Chile.[72]
  • On September 6, 2021,[73] Google made a doodle celebrating the 100th birthday of the Spanish writer Carmen Laforet,[74] in which she appears reading a book on a balcony.[75]
  • On September 8, 2021, Google made an 80-second illustrated video celebrating the 32nd birthday of Tim Bergling, in which a lot of people appear enjoying the song "Wake Me Up" by the Swedish DJ.[76]
  • On September 15, 2021, Google made five doodles celebrating independence day in various Central American countries such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Panama was not included, because its independence date was not September 15.[77]
  • On September 16, 2021, Magdiel Herrera made a doodle known as "a la mexicana" celebrating the Mexican independence day, in it shows a china poblana, a pozole, a bell, a hat with a zarape, a cactus and an Aztec musician.[78]
  • On September 17, 2021, Google did a doodle celebrating the birth of Michiyo Tsujimura, a Japanese biochemist known for her research on green tea and its nutritional benefits.[79]
  • On September 18, 2021, Google made a doodle from the Chilean National Holidays shows in the center to a huemul, an animal representative of both the country and the national shield.[80][81]
  • In January 2022, Google created a special Doodle that shows up when one searches on "Wordle", based on the online game Wordle that had risen to popularity in the prior month. The Doodle mimics one playing the game of Wordle on the name "Google".[82]
  • On January 17, 2022, Google celebrated what would have been Betty White's 100th birthday (she died just weeks earlier on December 31, 2021) by having rose petals fall from the top of the screen and the phrase "thank you for being a friend" appear at the bottom when the user searches for her name, both references to her popular television role on The Golden Girls.[83][84][85]
  • On February 17, 2022, Google celebrated Dr. Michiaki Takahashi's 94th birthday with a doodle showing first the research phase, then a boy with chickenpox, a doctor giving the chickenpox vaccine, and ending with bottles of medicine and dots giving a graphical representation of the declining number of cases due to the vaccine.[86]
  • On September 8, 2022, the date of Queen Elizabeth II's death, Google erected a specialized grayscale Doodle in the United Kingdom and certain other Commonwealth nations, which comprised simply the Google logo without color and a hyperlink to "Queen Elizabeth II" in honor of the late monarch. A dedicated page was erected for the Doodle on Google's Doodle archive site, but it was not displayed in the normal listing.[87][88]
    • For the date of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, September 19, Google changed the aforementioned grayscale Doodle to black.[89][90] This Doodle, as with the grayscale one erected on her date of death, was also not displayed in the normal archive listing on Google's Doodle archive site.
  • On October 30–31, 2022, Google re-released the Great Ghoul Duel multiplayer Doodle from 2018 with additional maps and achievements.[91] The game was originally scheduled to be released 2021 but it was delayed due to server and designing difficulties.[92]

"Doodle 4 Google" competitions

 
The original Google "Doodler", Dennis Hwang at a Doodle 4 Google event in Beijing, 2009
Main article: Doodle4Google

Google holds competitions for school students to create their own Google doodles, referred to as "Doodle 4 Google".[93] Winning doodles go onto the Doodle4Google website, where the public can vote for the winner, who wins a trip to the Googleplex and the hosting of the winning doodle for 24 hours on the Google website.

The competition originated in the United Kingdom, and has since expanded to the United States and other countries. The competition was also held in Ireland in 2008.[94] Google announced a Doodle 4 Google competition for India in 2009[95] and the winning doodle was displayed on the Google India homepage on November 14. A similar competition held in Singapore based on the theme "Our Singapore" was launched in January 2010 and the winning entry was chosen from over 30,000 entries received. The winning design was shown on Singapore's National Day on Google Singapore's homepage.[96] It was held again in 2015 in Singapore and was themed 'Singapore: The next 50 years'.

Controversy and criticism

See also: Criticism of Google

On September 13, 2007, Google posted a doodle honoring author Roald Dahl on the anniversary of his birth. This date also happened to coincide with the first day of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, and Google was immediately criticized by some groups for this decision due to the fact that Dahl has been accused of anti-Semitism. Google removed the Doodle by 2:00 p.m. that day, and there remains no evidence of its existence in Google's official Doodle archive to this date.[97][98]

In 2007, Google was also criticized for not featuring versions of the Google logo for American patriotic holidays such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day.[99] Google featured a logo commemorating Veterans Day that year.[100]

In 2014, Google received some criticism for failing to honor the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion with a Doodle and instead honoring Japanese Go player Honinbo Shusaku.[101] In response to the criticism, Google removed the logo from their homepage and added a series of links to images of the invasion of Normandy.[101]

On May 19, 2016, Google honored Yuri Kochiyama, an Asian American activist and member of the Maoist-based black nationalist group Revolutionary Action Movement, with a Doodle on its main U.S. homepage.[102][103] This choice was criticized due to some of Kochiyama's controversial opinions, such as an admiration for Osama bin Laden and Mao Zedong.[102][104] U.S. Senator Pat Toomey called for a public apology from Google.[105] Google did not respond to any criticism, nor did it alter the presentation of the Doodle on its homepage or on the Doodle's dedicated page.[106]

Gender

In 2014, a report published by SPARK Movement, an activist organization, stated that there was a large gender and race imbalance in the number of Doodles shown by Google, and that most Doodles were honoring white males.[107] The report was widely reported in the media, and Google made a commitment to increase the proportion of women and racial minorities.[108][109]

Religious holidays

Google typically abstains from referencing or celebrating religious holidays specifically in Doodles, or in cases when they do, religious themes and iconography are avoided. Google has acknowledged this as an official policy, stating in April 2018 that they "don't have Doodles for religious holidays", according to "current Doodle guidelines." Google further explained that Doodles may appear for some "non-religious celebrations that have grown out of religious holidays", citing Valentine's Day (Christianity), Holi (Hinduism), and Tu B'Av (Judaism) as examples, but that the company does not include "religious imagery or symbolism" as part of those Doodles.[110]

Google has been criticized for what has been perceived as its inconsistency regarding the implementation of its religious holiday policy, notably its lack of Doodles for major Christian holidays. Critics have pointed to its yearly recognition of the Jewish and Hindu festivals of Tu B'av and Holi, while Easter only received an official Doodle once in 2000 (and a themed homepage in 2019).[111][112] Christmas is not specifically celebrated by name,[a] although a Doodle with a seasonally festive and/or winter theme has always been present on December 25 since 1999. Since the mid-2010s, Google has also repeated their December 25 doodle on January 7, which is the date for Christmas in the Eastern Orthodox Church, but the word "Christmas" has never explicitly been used; the terminology "holidays" and "Eastern Europe" are used instead of "Christmas" or "Eastern Orthodox Church".[113][114]

Easter

Google first created a Doodle for Easter in 2000, and did not acknowledge the holiday on its homepage again until 2019. In March 2013, Google was criticized for celebrating American activist Cesar Chavez on Easter Sunday with a Doodle instead of Easter.[115]

In 2019, after an 18-year hiatus, Google presented an atypical "Doodle" for Easter, for the desktop version of their homepage only. Unlike what is seen in virtually all other Doodles, the Google logo itself was unaltered in the presentation of the Doodle, and users had to click on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button where "Lucky" is replaced with an anthropomorphic Easter egg,[112] which triggered a falling array of Easter-themed items such as eggs, bunnies, and hot cross buns. Some of these items were hyperlinked, leading to a detailed page about Easter customs. Google's official Doodle archive page originally contained an unlisted entry for the 2019 Easter Doodle, which has since been removed.[b][116] Notably, the 2019 Easter-themed homepage was not visible from mobile devices unless the "Desktop mode" option was triggered on the mobile browser, leading to the majority of users not ever seeing the "Doodle". Danny Sullivan, technologist with Google involved with the Easter-themed homepage, responded to an inquiry about its absence on mobile by saying it was "hard to do the interactivity dependably [on mobile]".[117]

In 2020, Google once again celebrated Easter atypically on its homepage, but not as a Doodle. An Easter egg was placed below the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons, with hovertext indicating "Happy Easter".[118] When clicked, the egg led to a search results page for "Easter". This is similar to how Memorial Day and Remembrance Day have been recognized by the company in the US.[119]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Every year since 1999, Google has posted a special international doodle as either one logo or several interconnected logos, spanning at least the day of December 25 (sometimes beginning as early as December 1 and ending as late as December 27). Many of the logos have had winter themes, despite it being summer in the Southern Hemisphere, but few have had explicitly Christmas themes, opting for generic seasonally festive imagery instead. Google has rarely if ever used the word "Christmas" in relation to these Doodles, though multiple news sources have.[15][16] Google has used terminology including "season's greetings", "happy holidays", "'tis the season", "end of year" and "holiday series" to describe the Doodles.
  2. ^ Although Wayback Machine's archival of the 2019 Easter Doodle's dedicated page did not record the actual Doodle logo or text, it is evident that a dedicated page was erected at the URL "google.com/doodles/easter-2019" and later removed by Google just prior to the Wayback Machine's attempt to archive it, as archival of this URL was automatically triggered by the Wayback Machine on Easter Day 2019 (April 21), which is not the case for any other type of invalid URL in the google.com/doodles/ path index. The citation provided shows that the page was triggered for archival on April 21, 2019.

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For the software service included in Google Workspace see Google Drawings A Google Doodle is a special temporary alteration of the logo on Google s homepages intended to commemorate holidays events achievements and notable historical figures The first Google Doodle honored the 1998 edition of the long running annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City Nevada and was designed by co founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed 1 2 3 Early Marketing employee Susan Wojcicki then spearheaded subsequent Doodles including an alien landing on Google and additional custom logos for major holidays 4 Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor until 2000 when Page and Brin asked public relations officer Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day Since then a team of employees called Doodlers have organized and published the Doodles 5 The first Google Doodle on August 30 1998 which celebrated Burning Man Initially Doodles were neither animated nor hyperlinked they were simply images with tooltips describing the subject or expressing a holiday greeting Doodles increased in both frequency and complexity by the beginning of the 2010s In January 2010 the first animated Doodle honored Sir Isaac Newton 6 The first interactive Doodle appeared shortly thereafter celebrating Pac Man 7 and hyperlinks also began to be added to Doodles usually linking to a search results page for the subject of the Doodle By 2014 Google had published over 2 000 regional and international Doodles throughout its homepages 8 often featuring guest artists musicians and personalities 9 By 2019 the Doodlers team had created over 4 000 doodles for Google s homepages around the world 10 Contents 1 Overview 1 1 Common themes 2 Doodlers 3 Interactive and notable doodles 3 1 2010s 3 2 2020s 4 Doodle 4 Google competitions 5 Controversy and criticism 5 1 Gender 5 2 Religious holidays 5 2 1 Easter 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksOverview EditIn addition to celebrating many well known events and holidays Google Doodles celebrate artists and scientists on their birthdays 11 The featuring of Lowell s logo design coincided with the launch of another Google product Google Maps Google Doodles are also used to depict major events at Google such as the company s own anniversary 12 The celebration of historic events is another common topic of Google Doodles including a Lego brick design in celebration of the interlocking Lego block s 50th anniversary Some Google Doodles are limited to Google s country specific home pages while others appear globally 13 Common themes Edit For New Year s 2014 Google created this animated image depicting dancing numbers Since Google first celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with a Doodle in 1998 many Doodles for holidays events and other celebrations have recurred on an annual basis including the following Gregorian New Year 2000 present Martin Luther King Jr Day 2003 2006 present Lunar New Year 2001 2003 present Valentine s Day 2000 present partial exception during certain Olympic years International Women s Day 2005 2009 present Saint Patrick s Day 2000 2021 Earth Day 2001 present Mother s Day 2000 present Father s Day 2000 present Juneteenth 2020 present U S Independence Day 2000 present Bastille Day 2000 present German Unity Day 2002 2003 2006 2008 2010 present Swiss National Day 2001 2015 2016 present Olympic Games 2000 present partial exception in 2014 14 Holi 2001 present intermittently Halloween 1999 present Hinamatsuri 2009 2012 2014 present International Men s Day 2022 present U S Thanksgiving Day 1998 present Christmas Day 1999 present a New Year s Eve 2011 present Doodlers EditThe illustrators engineers and artists who design Google Doodles are called Doodlers These doodlers have included artists like Ekua Holmes Jennifer Hom Sophia Foster Dimino Ranganath Krishnamani Dennis Hwang Olivia Fields and Eric Carle 17 18 19 20 21 22 Interactive and notable doodles Edit Google s interactive Pac Man logo In May 2010 on the 30th anniversary of the 1980 arcade game Pac Man Google unveiled worldwide their first interactive logo created in association with Namco 23 Anyone who visited Google could play Pac Man on the logo which featured the letters of the word Google on the Pac Man maze The logo also mimicked the sounds the original arcade game made The I m Feeling Lucky button was replaced with an Insert Coin button Pressing this once enabled the user to play the Pac Man logo Pressing it once more added a second player Ms Pac Man enabling two players to play at once controlled using the W A S D keys instead of the arrows as used by Player 1 Pressing it for a third time performed an I m Feeling Lucky search It was then removed on May 23 2010 initially replacing Pac Man with the normal logo Later on that day Google released 24 a permanent site to play Google Pac Man accessed by clicking on top icon due to the popular user demand for the playable logo 24 Pac Man Doodle drew an estimated 1 billion players worldwide 25 Since that time Google has continued to post occasional interactive and video doodles 2010s Edit On June 8 2010 Robert Schumann was celebrated with a Google Doodle for his 200th birthday On September 4 2010 the Google logo was changed to an interactive Buckyball to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its discovery 26 27 The Buckyball also known as the Buckminsterfullerene C60 is a molecule made entirely of carbon On September 6 2010 Google launched its fourth interactive Google Doodle Google Instant Particle Logo replaced its static logo with a JavaScript based particle movement simulator where dynamic colored balls can be manipulated with the movement of the mouse cursor over the logo or by shaking of the browser window 28 Unlike some other Google Doodles this one is unclickable 29 On September 7 2010 another Google Instant family logo known as Keystroke Logo was released Greyed out colorless logo lit up with the standard Google colors as the first 6 letters of a search query were entered 30 On October 8 2010 Google ran its first video doodle a short animation set to the music of Imagine to mark what would have been John Lennon s 70th birthday 31 Similarly Freddie Mercury s would be 65th birthday was celebrated on September 5 2011 with an animated clip set to Don t Stop Me Now 32 On April 15 2011 Google sported the first live action video doodle commemorating what would have been Charlie Chaplin s 122nd birthday 33 This doodle was a black and white YouTube video that when clicked upon started playing before redirecting to the usual Google search featuring the doodle s special occasion All parts in this short film were played by the Google Doodle team and special behind the scenes footage was to be found on the Google blog Google displayed an interactive electric guitar doodle starting June 9 2011 to celebrate the would be 96th birthday of Les Paul Apart from being able to hover the cursor over the doodle to strum the strings just like one of Les Paul s Gibson guitars there was also a keyboard button which when enabled allowed interaction with the doodle via the keyboard The doodle still maintained some resemblance to the Google logo In the U S the doodle also allowed the user to record a 30 second clip after which a URL is created and can be sent to others The doodle remained on the site an extra day due to popularity in the U S It now has its own page linked to the Google Doodles archives 34 On January 18 2012 for users in the United States Google placed a censor bar on top of their logo to protest SOPA and PIPA On May 23 2012 for what would have been instrument inventor and synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog s 78th birthday the Doodle team pulled off their own feat of engineering a fully playable and recordable Google logo resembling a vintage Minimoog Model D synthesizer Electronic analog Moog Synthesizer timbre and tones would come to define a generation of music featuring heavily in songs by The Beatles The Doors Stevie Wonder Kraftwerk and many others Much like the musical machines Bob Moog created this doodle was synthesized from a number of smaller components to form a unique instrument Mouse or computer keyboard was used to control the mini synthesizer s keys and knobs and fiddle with oscillators and envelopes Synthesizer doodle patched the keyboard into a 4 track tape recorder that could share songs 35 36 37 On June 23 2012 in commemoration of what would have been Alan Turing s 100th birthday Google s logo became an interactive Turing Machine 38 On August 8 2012 Google Displayed an interactive Basketball Game for the 2012 Summer Olympics On September 13 2012 Google created a doodle for Clara Schumann to celebrate her 193rd birthday On November 23 2013 Google s logo changed to a playable Doctor Who game in honor of the show s 50th anniversary 39 On May 19 2014 for the 40th anniversary of the Rubik s Cube Google made an interactive virtual Rubik s Cube that people could try to solve On April 14 2015 for the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express Google made a playable 2D side scrolling doodle game in which the player collects mail avoids obstacles and delivers up to 100 letters from California to Missouri 40 On December 17 2015 a Google Doodle was featured honoring the 245th anniversary of Beethoven s baptism 41 It features an interactive game to match the musical writing in correct order as it featured 4 levels On January 22 2016 for the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville creator of the Scoville Scale Google made a playable doodle game in which the player plays as an ice cream cone throwing ice cream scoops at a variety of peppers to neutralize their heat Gameplay is based on the timing of a mouse click or space bar press which rapidly increases in difficulty The game features 5 levels each featuring a different type of pepper Bell Pepper Jalapeno Pepper Cayenne Pepper Ghost Pepper and Trinidad Moruga scorpion and a fun fact about each pepper along with its measured Scoville Heat Units 42 On August 5 2016 for the 2016 Summer Olympics the Google app received an update for Android and iOS devices to include 7 mini games called Doodle Fruit Games featuring Strawberry Blueberry Coconut Pineapple and more It lasted until August 21 with a new mini game every day The game was accessible on the Google app by clicking on a play button On October 30 2016 for Halloween Google added a game called Magic Cat Academy featuring a cat named Momo fighting ghosts To play users had to click on a play button and users have to draw to kill the ghosts On February 11 12 13 and 14 2017 for Valentine s Day Google added a game featuring the endangered pangolin an African and Asian mammal that goes through four levels one released each day while collecting objects and avoiding obstacles On 28 February 2017 Google celebrated Edhi with a Google Doodle hailing his super efficient ambulance service 43 On May 9 2017 a Google Doodle was featured honoring the 181st birthday of Ferdinand Monoyer He was a French ophthalmologist who introduced the dioptre in 1872 Dioptre is the unit of measurement of the focusing power of the lens It is like the distance between a person s eyes and the text to be read Monoyer devised an eye chart where every row represents a different diopter from smallest to largest A close look at Doodle may reveal to the reader a tribute to Ferdinand Monoyer 44 his name hidden in the chart On June 22 2017 to celebrate what would have been the 117th birthday of Oskar Fischinger a musician Google released an interactive fullscreen Doodle that let users create their own musical songs by tapping on the screen The user could then choose to share it to social media The game was accessible by tapping on 2 play buttons 45 On August 11 2017 the 44th anniversary of DJ Kool Herc s pioneering use of the hip hop break the Google Doodle allowed users use a double turntable to act as a hip hop DJ 46 On September 4 2017 to celebrate what would have been the 83rd birthday of Russian baritone singer Eduard Khil Google added a video doodle that featured an animated Eduard Khil singing I am very glad as I m finally returning back home known globally as the Trololo song On December 4 2017 Google celebrated 50 years of kids coding languages with an Interactive Doodle 47 48 On January 29 2018 Google celebrated Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng on what would have been her 65th birthday 49 On May 3 2018 Google celebrated the work of Georges Melies by making a doodle that encompassed his famous work such as A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage The doodle is also the first google doodle that was shown in 360 degrees format with the viewer being able to rotate the video to give them different points of view 50 On June 10 2018 Google celebrated the history of garden gnomes by releasing an interactive Doodle where the player can use a catapult to launch their clay gnomes into the farthest reach of their garden citation needed On 15 September 2018 for India Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya s 158th Birthday On whose birthday India celebrates Engineer s day On October 30 2018 for Halloween Google added a multiplayer game called Great Ghoul Duel featuring two teams of ghosts racing to collect spirits and steal them from the other team 51 Games can support up to 8 players and users could create custom invite links or match with random users across the globe Great Ghoul Duel was the first Doodle to support multiplayer over the internet 52 On November 6 2018 for the United States elections Google changed their logo to Go Vote 53 On March 21 2019 Google celebrated German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach by creating the first Doodle that uses artificial intelligence to make music When a button is pressed the Doodle uses machine learning to harmonize a user created melody into Bach s signature music style or alternatively into a Bach 80s rock style hybrid if an amp on the right side is clicked 54 On July 16 20 2019 Google celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing by NASA where Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon 55 On 12 August 2019 for India Google commemorated Vikram Sarabhai s 100th birth anniversary He is internationally regarded as the Father of the Indian Space Program 56 2020s Edit On March 20 2020 in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic Google honored Ignaz Semmelweis for pioneering the practice of hand washing The Doodle animation specifically showcased how to properly and thoroughly wash one s hands 57 Google also released several doodles in the following weeks thanking various industry workers who helped people out during the pandemic Some games were re released for people staying at home during lockdown to play 58 On April 22 2020 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day a Doodle game was created in partnership with the Honeybee Conservancy wherein a honeybee is guided by the player to pollinate flowers while facts about the honeybee and its impact are shared between levels 59 On June 30 2020 Google celebrated Marsha P Johnson with a Google Doodle 2 On September 1 2020 Google honored Jackie Ormes known for being the first African American woman cartoonist along with being the creator of the Torchy Brown comic strip and the Patty Jo n Ginger panel The Doodle animation showcased a slideshow of her career 60 On Halloween a sequel to the 2016 Halloween Doodle was made It had similar gameplay but a different setting underwater and focused on sea creatures such as the immortal jellyfish and the anglerfish On January 15 2021 Google honored James Naismith known as the inventor of the game of basketball The Doodle animation showcases a person making a basket 61 On March 10 2021 Google honored Wu Lien teh depicting Wu Lien teh assembling surgical masks and distributing them to reduce the risk of disease transmission 62 63 64 On June 9 2021 Google honored Shirley Temple with an animated depiction of her during her career as a child actress alongside her later service as a diplomat 65 On July 23 2021 Google released an RPG style game called Doodle Champion Island Games with artwork by Studio 4 C to celebrate video gaming Japanese folklore and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo 66 67 On August 14 2021 Google made a doodle of Derawar Fort to celebrate Pakistan s 75 Independence Day 68 According to Google the fort symbolizes Pakistani adaptability and antiquity 68 On September 2 2021 Google made a doodle celebrating the 138th birthday of the Polish biologist Rudolf Weigl known for inventing the epidemic typhus vaccine 69 70 On September 5 2021 Olivia When made a doodle celebrating the 107th birthday of the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra 71 being visible in 15 countries including Chile 72 On September 6 2021 73 Google made a doodle celebrating the 100th birthday of the Spanish writer Carmen Laforet 74 in which she appears reading a book on a balcony 75 On September 8 2021 Google made an 80 second illustrated video celebrating the 32nd birthday of Tim Bergling in which a lot of people appear enjoying the song Wake Me Up by the Swedish DJ 76 On September 15 2021 Google made five doodles celebrating independence day in various Central American countries such as Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Nicaragua and Costa Rica Panama was not included because its independence date was not September 15 77 On September 16 2021 Magdiel Herrera made a doodle known as a la mexicana celebrating the Mexican independence day in it shows a china poblana a pozole a bell a hat with a zarape a cactus and an Aztec musician 78 On September 17 2021 Google did a doodle celebrating the birth of Michiyo Tsujimura a Japanese biochemist known for her research on green tea and its nutritional benefits 79 On September 18 2021 Google made a doodle from the Chilean National Holidays shows in the center to a huemul an animal representative of both the country and the national shield 80 81 In January 2022 Google created a special Doodle that shows up when one searches on Wordle based on the online game Wordle that had risen to popularity in the prior month The Doodle mimics one playing the game of Wordle on the name Google 82 On January 17 2022 Google celebrated what would have been Betty White s 100th birthday she died just weeks earlier on December 31 2021 by having rose petals fall from the top of the screen and the phrase thank you for being a friend appear at the bottom when the user searches for her name both references to her popular television role on The Golden Girls 83 84 85 On February 17 2022 Google celebrated Dr Michiaki Takahashi s 94th birthday with a doodle showing first the research phase then a boy with chickenpox a doctor giving the chickenpox vaccine and ending with bottles of medicine and dots giving a graphical representation of the declining number of cases due to the vaccine 86 On September 8 2022 the date of Queen Elizabeth II s death Google erected a specialized grayscale Doodle in the United Kingdom and certain other Commonwealth nations which comprised simply the Google logo without color and a hyperlink to Queen Elizabeth II in honor of the late monarch A dedicated page was erected for the Doodle on Google s Doodle archive site but it was not displayed in the normal listing 87 88 For the date of Queen Elizabeth II s funeral September 19 Google changed the aforementioned grayscale Doodle to black 89 90 This Doodle as with the grayscale one erected on her date of death was also not displayed in the normal archive listing on Google s Doodle archive site On October 30 31 2022 Google re released the Great Ghoul Duel multiplayer Doodle from 2018 with additional maps and achievements 91 The game was originally scheduled to be released 2021 but it was delayed due to server and designing difficulties 92 Doodle 4 Google competitions Edit The original Google Doodler Dennis Hwang at a Doodle 4 Google event in Beijing 2009 Main article Doodle4Google Google holds competitions for school students to create their own Google doodles referred to as Doodle 4 Google 93 Winning doodles go onto the Doodle4Google website where the public can vote for the winner who wins a trip to the Googleplex and the hosting of the winning doodle for 24 hours on the Google website The competition originated in the United Kingdom and has since expanded to the United States and other countries The competition was also held in Ireland in 2008 94 Google announced a Doodle 4 Google competition for India in 2009 95 and the winning doodle was displayed on the Google India homepage on November 14 A similar competition held in Singapore based on the theme Our Singapore was launched in January 2010 and the winning entry was chosen from over 30 000 entries received The winning design was shown on Singapore s National Day on Google Singapore s homepage 96 It was held again in 2015 in Singapore and was themed Singapore The next 50 years Controversy and criticism EditSee also Criticism of Google On September 13 2007 Google posted a doodle honoring author Roald Dahl on the anniversary of his birth This date also happened to coincide with the first day of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah and Google was immediately criticized by some groups for this decision due to the fact that Dahl has been accused of anti Semitism Google removed the Doodle by 2 00 p m that day and there remains no evidence of its existence in Google s official Doodle archive to this date 97 98 In 2007 Google was also criticized for not featuring versions of the Google logo for American patriotic holidays such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day 99 Google featured a logo commemorating Veterans Day that year 100 In 2014 Google received some criticism for failing to honor the 70th anniversary of the D Day invasion with a Doodle and instead honoring Japanese Go player Honinbo Shusaku 101 In response to the criticism Google removed the logo from their homepage and added a series of links to images of the invasion of Normandy 101 On May 19 2016 Google honored Yuri Kochiyama an Asian American activist and member of the Maoist based black nationalist group Revolutionary Action Movement with a Doodle on its main U S homepage 102 103 This choice was criticized due to some of Kochiyama s controversial opinions such as an admiration for Osama bin Laden and Mao Zedong 102 104 U S Senator Pat Toomey called for a public apology from Google 105 Google did not respond to any criticism nor did it alter the presentation of the Doodle on its homepage or on the Doodle s dedicated page 106 Gender Edit In 2014 a report published by SPARK Movement an activist organization stated that there was a large gender and race imbalance in the number of Doodles shown by Google and that most Doodles were honoring white males 107 The report was widely reported in the media and Google made a commitment to increase the proportion of women and racial minorities 108 109 Religious holidays Edit Google typically abstains from referencing or celebrating religious holidays specifically in Doodles or in cases when they do religious themes and iconography are avoided Google has acknowledged this as an official policy stating in April 2018 that they don t have Doodles for religious holidays according to current Doodle guidelines Google further explained that Doodles may appear for some non religious celebrations that have grown out of religious holidays citing Valentine s Day Christianity Holi Hinduism and Tu B Av Judaism as examples but that the company does not include religious imagery or symbolism as part of those Doodles 110 Google has been criticized for what has been perceived as its inconsistency regarding the implementation of its religious holiday policy notably its lack of Doodles for major Christian holidays Critics have pointed to its yearly recognition of the Jewish and Hindu festivals of Tu B av and Holi while Easter only received an official Doodle once in 2000 and a themed homepage in 2019 111 112 Christmas is not specifically celebrated by name a although a Doodle with a seasonally festive and or winter theme has always been present on December 25 since 1999 Since the mid 2010s Google has also repeated their December 25 doodle on January 7 which is the date for Christmas in the Eastern Orthodox Church but the word Christmas has never explicitly been used the terminology holidays and Eastern Europe are used instead of Christmas or Eastern Orthodox Church 113 114 Easter Edit Google first created a Doodle for Easter in 2000 and did not acknowledge the holiday on its homepage again until 2019 In March 2013 Google was criticized for celebrating American activist Cesar Chavez on Easter Sunday with a Doodle instead of Easter 115 In 2019 after an 18 year hiatus Google presented an atypical Doodle for Easter for the desktop version of their homepage only Unlike what is seen in virtually all other Doodles the Google logo itself was unaltered in the presentation of the Doodle and users had to click on the I m Feeling Lucky button where Lucky is replaced with an anthropomorphic Easter egg 112 which triggered a falling array of Easter themed items such as eggs bunnies and hot cross buns Some of these items were hyperlinked leading to a detailed page about Easter customs Google s official Doodle archive page originally contained an unlisted entry for the 2019 Easter Doodle which has since been removed b 116 Notably the 2019 Easter themed homepage was not visible from mobile devices unless the Desktop mode option was triggered on the mobile browser leading to the majority of users not ever seeing the Doodle Danny Sullivan technologist with Google involved with the Easter themed homepage responded to an inquiry about its absence on mobile by saying it was hard to do the interactivity dependably on mobile 117 In 2020 Google once again celebrated Easter atypically on its homepage but not as a Doodle An Easter egg was placed below the Google Search and I m Feeling Lucky buttons with hovertext indicating Happy Easter 118 When clicked the egg led to a search results page for Easter This is similar to how Memorial Day and Remembrance Day have been recognized by the company in the US 119 See also Edit Internet portalBrand management Interactive media Magic Cat Academy Doodle Champion Island GamesNotes Edit a b Every year since 1999 Google has posted a special international doodle as either one logo or several interconnected logos spanning at least the day of December 25 sometimes beginning as early as December 1 and ending as late as December 27 Many of the logos have had winter themes despite it being summer in the Southern Hemisphere but few have had explicitly Christmas themes opting for generic seasonally festive imagery instead Google has rarely if ever used the word Christmas in relation to these Doodles though multiple news sources have 15 16 Google has used terminology including season s greetings happy holidays 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