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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 21, 2012
Lovely garden doodle on Google’s homepage pays tribute to Earth Day — the top graphic with “Google” spelled out with green, leafy plants is displayed. Once the doodle is displayed, the graphic (shown below) with blooming flowers slowly replaces it: Clicking the doodle will bring you to a page with Earth Day events and [...]
Vicki McClure Davidson | April 9, 2012
British photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge revolutionized photography of animal locomotion. Honoring what would have been his 182nd birthday (he was born April 9, 1830), search engine giant Google has an awesome animation on its homepage today in tribute to Muybridge’s work, that of riders on galloping horses. He was the first, in 1878, to [...]
Vicki McClure Davidson | March 17, 2012
Éirinn go brách — Ireland Forever! This year’s Celtic-style Google doodle honoring St. Patrick’s Day on its homepage is lovely: Google’s doodle tribute to St. Patrick’s Day (in Irish, Lá Fhéile Pádraig) from 2010: In 2011, Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land noted that there was no Google St. Patty’s Day tribute, although [...]
