The Google Doodle is an artistic version of the Google logo. In 1998, Google used the first Google Doodle of the Burning Man Festival, designed by Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, posted on google.com notifying users of their absence in case Google's servers crashed.[1] Since 2000, Dennis Hwang, now Google's international webmaster has been designing the Google Doodles, but designing the Doodles is only about 20 percent of his job.[2] All Google doodles are available at: http://www.google.com/logos/index.html
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The first few Google Doodles were simple and infrequent. These are all the doodles between 30 August 1998 to 25 December 1999
During 2009, an increasingly higher number of more intricate Google Doodles were made. Google Doodle represent events like holidays, anniversaries, or current events. Google holds an annual competition called Doodle 4 Google, in which children in grades K-12 to create a logo that Google will use as a Doodle for google.com.
On April 1, 2009, Google created a doodle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol.[4]
On October 7, 2009, Google featured a doodle of their logo as a barcode to recognize the anniversary of its invention in 1948 by Bernard Silver.[5]
On October 31, 2009, the Google page displayed a 4-step Halloween logo, showing a more and more chaotic display of sweets after the first 3 clicks, before redirecting the user to the search results page.
From November 4–10, 2009, Google featured a new picture of Sesame Street characters to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary.
On Wednesday, November 11, 2009, Google made a doodle for Veteran's Day, which featured a veteran and a policeman as the "l" and the "e".
On Friday, November 13, 2009, Google featured the moon as the second "o" in Google with the other letters appearing as water, to celebrate NASA's confirmation of significant amounts of water on the moon.
On Thursday, November 26, 2009 (Thanksgiving Day), Google featured the beloved Peanuts comic strip characters Snoopy & Woodstock cooking a Thanksgiving dinner. Chef Snoopy stood in for the Google "l", with Chef Woodstock in Snoopy's hat. That day also marked the birth date of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz.