Tagged: Doodle
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Frank Hornby’s 150th birthday marked on Google’s UK homepage News
15.05.2013 Head to Google.co.uk today and you’ll see a Google Doodle made up of toy trains to honour what would have been the 150th birthday of Frank Hornby, the inventor of Hornby Model... -
Workers, this May Day 2013 Google Doodle is for you News
01.05.2013 Internet search giant Google has worked to honour workers today with a Google Doodle on its homepage marking May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day. -
Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday inspires Google Doodle (video) News
25.04.2013 Google has struck a high note with its colourful Google Doodle in honour of what would have been jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday today. -
St George’s Day receives Google Doodle treatment News
23.04.2013 A colourful and medieval-looking Google Doodle marking St George’s Day greets users of internet search giant Google in the UK today. -
Animated Google Doodle dances a St. Patrick’s Day jig News
17.03.2013 Google is celebrating St Patrick’s Day with a lively Doodle of traditional Irish dancers wearing the letters of the search engine’s name and doing their best Riverdance. -
Don’t panic: Google honours Douglas Adams with interactive H2G2 Doodle News
11.03.2013 Writer Douglas Adams’ most famous work – already adapted in many forms – now takes shape as an interactive Google Doodle to mark what would have been his 61st birthday. -
International Women's Day marked by Google with Doodle of international women News
08.03.2013 Today, 8 March, is International Women's Day, and Google has created a suitably female-oriented, global-minded Doodle for the occasion. The beautiful illustration depicts the... -
Miriam Makeba: 81st birthday celebrated with a Google Doodle News
04.03.2013 It would have been singer Miriam Makeba’s 81st birthday today, and Google has commemorated the day for the woman known as Mama Africa, who recorded and performed with the likes... -
Google Doodle illustrates Nicolaus Copernicus’ heliocentric model on his 540th birthday News
19.02.2013 To mark the 540th birth date of Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, Google has created an animated doodle on its homepage depicting the solar... -
Doodle 4 Google competition opens to Ireland’s public vote News
18.02.2013 They’ve drawn, coloured and created, and now 75 students from across Ireland have left their Google Doodles up to a public vote to help select the winner of Google’s annual... -
Google swiftly removes space rock doodle after meteor explosion News
15.02.2013 Google has taken swift action to remove a rather untimely doodle on its homepage. The doodle had featured a space rock to allude to the flyby of a near-Earth asteroid today. But... -
Google shares the love for George Ferris with Valentine’s doodle News
14.02.2013 This year’s Valentine’s Day doodle on the Google homepage is working a double shift as both a marker for the lovey-dovey day that’s in it and a celebration of the 154th... -
Mary Leakey, the famed British fossil hunter, celebrated in Google Doodle News
06.02.2013 The archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey is celebrated by Google today, on what would have been her 100th birthday, with a colourful doodle that illustrates her... -
Birthday of inventor Frank Zamboni marked with interactive Google Doodle News
16.01.2013 If you’re looking for a little something to get you through this hump day, look no further than Google’s homepage as an interactive Google Doodle honouring the inventor of the... -
Google goes Grimm: new interactive doodle tells story of Little Red Riding Hood News
20.12.2012 To mark the 200th anniversary of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Google has brought to the world a new interactive Doodle that tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood in a...Categories: Software & Web Development, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Digital Media, Development, Design -
Nutcracker Ballet’s 120th anniversary honoured in Google Doodle News
18.12.2012 Today’s doodle marks 120 years since the two-act ballet, The Nutcracker, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. Though it was not an immediate success, the... -
Happy Thanksgiving theme on US Google Doodle News
22.11.2012 Internet search giant Google has decorated its homepage stateside with a Thanksgiving-themed Google Doodle. Today is Thanksgiving Day in the US. -
Rugby player Rob Kearney joins Doodle 4 Google judging panel News
20.11.2012 The deadline for Google’s annual Doodle 4 Google competition is less than one month away and, while entries are pouring in from schoolchildren across Ireland, the judging panel... -
Google marks Universal Children’s Day with a doodle News
20.11.2012 Google has marked International Children’s Day, 20 November, with a colourful doodle in the shape of a Punch and Judy Show. -
Google Doodle marks Auguste Rodin's 172nd birth date News
12.11.2012 Internet search giant Google has tipped its hat to 'The Thinker' sculptor Auguste Rodin on the 172nd anniversary of his birth.