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Bani Thakur

Google doesn't bore us with the same logo but on many days we can play a tune with our mouse on the Google guitar or know about different places by clicking on the Google doodle. Google Doodle is both fun and hugely popular as it gives information too.

GOOGLE HAS been doing wonderful work with its doodles. Not a day goes by when most of the professional people or students do not log on to Google search engine and by introducing new doodles and interactive doodles, the general awareness and the knowledge of the people is growing manifold. As can be expected out of Google, all the doodles are very attractive, colourful and always signify some meaning or relates to some piece of information.

Doodles always add to the information that we already have. For example, everyone is familiar with Muppets but no one really knows who created them. Anyone who saw today’s doodles surely knows by now that it was Jim Henson, who gave birth to these puppets, which later went on to become such a rage among the children. Likewise, right from 1998, when Google started making doodles, till date, everyone of them has been interesting pieces of information.

Google, as everyone knows, is a power house of invention and these doodles help them to increase their income as people clicking on the Doodle are immediately reverted to different links and different sites. The whole doodle thing started with Google guys Larry Page and Sergey Brin. they creted the first 'Burning Man' Doodle to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Both of them designed the doodle and hence started a ritual of a sort. These days people from across the world make contribution to the Google with their doodle. A fine example would be the Venus transit on June 8, 2004, when a French astronomer gave Google the piece of information that Venus would cross the sun and the next time that happens would be 122 years later. This gave Google the idea of creating a blazing sun and a small black dot going around it.

Sometimes, new meanings are given by the users to some doodles as when during Valentines’s Day of 2007, Google sported a strawberry with chocolate. The makers thought that the strawberry to be the G and the stem to be the L of GooGLe but some of the browsers thought that the site was paying homage to 16th century poet Barnabe Googe who apparently wrote quite often about unrequited love. Thus, this piece of information came to the fore quite accidently. Till date, Google has showcased more than 100 doodles, and each one of them is unique.

Google also tries to inculcate the habit of art among kids by hosting Google doodle competition. Anyone from KG to Standard 12 can participate and make a doodle that would be pertaining to the theme given by Google and the winner would have its creation up as Google Doodle for the day. Matteo Lopez, won 2011 Doodle 4 Google competition and went home with the fat prize money.