It is highly unlikely that you have not seen a Google Doodle. But if you have not seen it and you don't know about it, here is the story behind it.
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.
As Google looks back at all the doodles of the year 2012, we would like to share our favourite Google Doodles of this year.
Enjoy!
The End of the Mayan 13th Bakut - December 21 (Supposedly the end of the world). Well the world did not come to an end.
Google's 14th Birthday - September 27, 2012
Of course, Google did a doodle to celebrate its birthday.
Of course, Google did a doodle to celebrate its birthday.
Gideon Sundback's 132nd Birthday (The Zipper Doodle) - April 24, 2012
Google dedicated this doodle to the Swedish-American inventor of the ubiquitous zipper, Gideon Sundback. Honouring Gideon Sundback, the page unzipped to reveal a search engine results page on the engineer.
Google dedicated this doodle to the Swedish-American inventor of the ubiquitous zipper, Gideon Sundback. Honouring Gideon Sundback, the page unzipped to reveal a search engine results page on the engineer.
Google's Olympic doodles (July 27th - August 12th 2012)
During the London 2012 Olympics doodle, Google came up a doodle for most of the days.
During the London 2012 Olympics doodle, Google came up a doodle for most of the days.
On the occasion of the 46th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series, the Google doodle showed the characters of the cult science fiction television series that aired on NBC in the US from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969 as letters of the Google logo.
Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - June 23, 2012
Mathematician Alan Turing is often considered the father of modern computing. During World War II, Turing worked as a cryptanalyst for the British government, helping crack several German ciphers. He later invented the Turing machine, which demonstrated a computer's ability to perform computations using only binary digits.
Google marked the occasion of Turing's 100th birthday with an interactive Doodle that offered users a dozen different programming puzzles.
Google doodled Eadweard J Muybridge's (the man behind the first ever galloping horse moving image) 182nd birthday this year. The series of galloping horse images on the Google home page seemed to spring to life at the press of the play button.
For other related Google Doodle classifications, see below.
Mathematician Alan Turing is often considered the father of modern computing. During World War II, Turing worked as a cryptanalyst for the British government, helping crack several German ciphers. He later invented the Turing machine, which demonstrated a computer's ability to perform computations using only binary digits.
Google marked the occasion of Turing's 100th birthday with an interactive Doodle that offered users a dozen different programming puzzles.
Eadweard J. Muybridge's 182nd Birthday - April 9, 2012
For other related Google Doodle classifications, see below.
- For African Google Doodles of 2012 - Click here;
- For Top 12 tech-related Google Doodles of 2012 - Click here.
