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Google Doodle explained
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1 year ago
How long has Google been doing the Doodle?
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So we all know the Google Doodle, right? It's one of the search engine signature
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features, but it has quite a surprising history and it's been around for a lot
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longer than you think. I personally sort of thought it was from the 2010s, I'm not
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really sure why. It feels like a 2010s thing. It feels like, you know, that was the
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real bursting of the internet age and it feels like it would fit then. But
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actually the first Google Doodle was in 1998. Yeah, you heard that correctly, 1998.
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And it was to celebrate Burning Man, which is a sort of arts festival in the
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desert in the US, which has been running for a long time. So it was to celebrate the
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edition of that long-running festival in 1998. And the first animated one, so not
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just a picture, you know, animated, it's live, was actually in the year 2000. So
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just at the start of the millennium. And it was for Halloween in the year 2000,
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which is kind of crazy. Like, it feels like that would have been so futuristic
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at the time. I mean, imagine if you were there, do you remember it? If you
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remember it, reach out. That would be a cool story. But also, it's, yeah, it's been
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running for so long now. There's so many different types of Google Doodles. You've
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obviously got your pictures, which celebrate something or other. There's the
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animated ones. There's also interactive games. So in 2024, there's been one called
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Rise of the Half Moon, which comes with the last half moon of every month. And
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it's like kind of tarot card inspired. And you play against the moon, testing
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your knowledge of the lunar cycle. And there's like nine levels. And yeah, you get to do
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it every month and have just fun with that. And according to Wikipedia, at
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least, there's been 5,000 different Google Doodles made for homepages across
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the world, which is crazy. And that's as of 2024. So that's numbers only going to
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go up. And also, they do regional specific ones. So it's not just, you know, if you
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if you travel to Lithuania, you might see one that's exclusive to Lithuania, if
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it's celebrating an important milestone in Lithuania. Or, you know, if it's Hogmanay
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in Scotland, then you might get one of those in the British Isles, but not elsewhere. So
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yeah, it's really fascinating. And they've been around a lot longer than you might
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think. Yeah, so it's almost, what, 26 years? Yeah, 1998 is 26. So wow. So not that long
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before it's 30 years of Google Doodles. So hi, I've been tech writer Matt Mohn-Hickson,
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and this is a surprising history of Google Doodles.
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