Google logo#Google Doodles
As a Google Doodle (German Scribble, scribble ) the change in the Google logo is called. Since 1998, the logo on special occasions, such as birthdays, anniversaries elections or different, changed. Most of the letters are yet to realize. In addition, these logos are linked instead to the Google home page with a search query with the appropriate topic as the search titles. Normally a Google Doodle is as long as the occasion is given to see on the Google page. Since 2011 there is a U.S. patent on the doodles. By the beginning of 2014 almost 1,900 Google Doodels are listed (see below the section numbers).
History
The first Doodle appeared in 1998, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin tinkered around on the normal logo to You express their presence at the festival Burning. The first doodles were still very simple. Most of the time the picture was behind or in front of the letters. In 1998 there were a total of three doodles. In 2000, Dennis Hwang of Page and Brin was asked if he would like to design a doodle for the national holiday in France. This doodle was so popular among users that Hwang 's chief doodler [note 1 ] (" Chief Doodler " ) of Google was. There are in the U.S. and internationally numerous doodles created by a talented, responsible especially for the doodles team consisting of graphic designers and illustrators. The team members are internally called "The Doodlers ".
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens every day there was a new doodle, which is a different sport.
At the 2008 European Football Championship held in Germany for the first time Google to make a contest called Doodle4Google in which children and adolescents aged 5-18 years were called, a logo for the European Championships. The winning logo was shown on the day of European Championship finals on the German Google homepage. In other countries, there have been similar competitions. In addition, there was the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing again different doodles with daily changing designs.
Mark the 30th anniversary of the arcade game Pac -Man game was presented as an interactive doodle on 21 May 2010 for the first time. The programmed in JavaScript version of the classic included all 255 levels of the game, including a two-player version of Ms. Pac -Man. The button " I'm feeling lucky " in time became " Insert coin / Insert Coin " renamed, with it, the game has started.
On March 22, 2011 Google has been awarded a U.S. patent for its doodles under U.S. Patent No. 7,912,915. The issued only for the U.S. patent describes a system that provides a regularly changing act or a corporate logo for special events in order to guide users to a website.
On 8 October 2010 it was the first time a video. The occasion was the birthday of John Lennon.
On January 18, 2012, a doodle was displayed as part of the protest against the SOPA bill, in which the Google logo is covered with a black censor bars.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Google released in July and August every day another Doodle whose content is oriented at each of the upcoming competitions on the day. Thus, for example, published an interactive basket throwing on the day of the basketball quarter-finals of the men.
Google shows on the occasion of the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi on February 7, 2014, a doodle in the colors of the rainbow flag of the gay and lesbian movement (or the LGBT movement ) for the second time after the protests against the SOPA bill, a doodle, that can be understood politically.
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2002 saw the first 50 Google Doodles. First time in 2008 100, in 2010 for the first time about 200 and 2013 for the first time more than 300 doodles. In the year 2012 293 changes have emerged. The year with most of Doodles (320 ) is up to now the year 2013. Until the end of August 2013 1,775 Google Doodles appeared [note 2] to the end of 2013 there were already 1,881. [Note 3]
Meanwhile, the doodles usually appear only for certain user groups only major world events such as the Olympic Games or World Championships seem even more all over the world.