Google search has been a part of all of our lives at least once. It is still the most widely used search engine that has answers to pretty much all the questions one can come up with. But every once in a while, the iconic Google logo looks different, based on the occasion. Do you know why and what it is called?
Doodle time
It’s called the Google Doodle. Doodles are surprising and fun changes made to the Google logo to mark various occasions such as festivals and sporting events, and to celebrate the lives of famous people.
The concept of the doodle was born even before Google was incorporated. In 1998, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin played around with the corporate logo of the company to indicate their attendance at a festival in Nevada desert, the United States. They doodled a stick figure on the second ‘o’ from the Google logo to give people a message that the founders were ‘out of office. And thus was born the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate events.
In 2000, Dennis Hwang, who was then an intern with the company, was asked to create a doodle for Bastille Day. The doodle was so well received within the company and by Google users that Dennis was appointed Google’s chief doodler and over time, a team was formed to create, illustrate and upload Google Doodles.
The company has created over 4.000 doodles till date.
You can be a doodler too!
If you have an idea for a doodle, or have any doodle to share, you can mail them to doodleproposals@google.com
The team will go through the proposals and get back to you if your idea is shortlisted.
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