Crikey! Google is covered in crocs! The search engine was decked out with fangs and claws and scales on Friday for a Google Doodle celebrating legendary Australian outdoorsman and the original Crocodile Hunter himself, Steve Irwin. Launched on Feb. 22 on what would have been Irwin’s 57th birthday (which is also, incidentally, this year’s National Wildlife Day), …
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Google celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with a Doodle depicting the late civil rights leader studying at home. King was born Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, and rose to prominence by advocating for civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott against the policy of racial segregation in the Alabama city’s …
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A Google Doodle on Monday celebrated the life of Michael Dertouzos, who foresaw how the internet would change the world. Dertouzos was born in Athens, Greece on Nov. 5, 1936, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined MIT’s faculty and became director of its Laboratory for Computer Science in 1974. He spearheaded …
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Google Doodle on Thursday celebrated what would’ve been the 110th birthday of Mary G. Ross, the first female Native American engineer. Ross — the great-granddaughter of the Cherokee Chief John Ross — was born in Oklahoma on Aug. 9, 1908, and quickly showed talent in math, and a passion for aviation and science. After Ross earned her master’s degree from …
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Google Doodle is getting America ready for the 4th of July a day early with an interactive map highlighting food from across the country. The map, known as a “Foodle,” suggests recipes from the 50 states and five US territories — Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam — based on search data from the last …
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If you don’t already, it’s time to get to know English inventor John Harrison. To mark April 3, John Harrison’s 325th birthday, Google is celebrating the man behind the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude at sea. To honor him, Google shows the inventor hard at work with his clock-making tools in Tuesday’s Doodle. Born in 1693, Harrison lived in …
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Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US, and Google has created a special Doodle to celebrate the life of the civil rights activist. This year’s Doodle features an illustration of a young girl sitting on her father’s shoulders in a crowd. Created by guest artist Cannaday Chapman in collaboration with the Black Googlers Network, the Doodle depicts …
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Google’s Doodle team went above and beyond to celebrate Computer Science Education Week on Monday with its very first coding Doodle. Available to tinker with globally, the Doodle lets you direct a cute, little bunny around a garden in search of carrots. Devised with the help of the Google Blockly team and researchers from MIT Scratch, the Doodle celebrates 50 …
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Google on Tuesday honored Mexican-America singer Selena Quintanilla with her own Google Doodle. The logo placed above every Google search comes out the same day Quintanilla released her first studio album, self-titled “Selena,” in 1989. The Doodle includes a short YouTube video highlighting her life and music. Born in Lake Jackson, Texas, on April 16, 1971, Quintanilla started developing her …
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What good is a birthday without fun and games? That’s apparently the thinking at Google, which on Wednesday celebrates its 19th birthday in numeric symmetry. The search giant has pulled together some of its most memorable interactive doodles from the past 19 years and presented them to you in a carnival prize wheel. By spinning the wheel, you can relive …
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