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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. Initially, Doodles were neither animated nor hyperlinked—they were google doodle pangolin 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. In addition to celebrating many well-known events and holidays, Google Doodles celebrate artists and scientists on their birthdays. The featuring of Lowell’s logo design coincided with the launch of another Google product, Google Maps. For New Year’s 2014, Google created this animated image depicting dancing numbers.
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. 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. 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. On September 6, 2010, Google launched its fourth interactive Google Doodle. 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. 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. On April 15, 2011, Google sported the first live-action video doodle, commemorating what would have been Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday. 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. 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. On June 23, 2012, in commemoration of what would have been Alan Turing’s 100th birthday, Google’s logo became an interactive Turing Machine. 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. 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. On December 17, 2015, a Google Doodle was featured honoring the 245th anniversary of Beethoven’s baptism.
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. 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.
