October 31st, 2012

Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween With Spooky Haunted Houses

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Following Google’s tradition of decorating its homepage to celebrate major holidays, the Google Doodle today is a cute and spooky interactive animation of haunted houses. Well, not haunted houses in the traditional sense of a lone, crusty old mansion with a graveyard nearby, but rather a series of haunted entryways to homes in the city. → Read More

September 27th, 2012

Google Marks 14 Years Organizing The World’s Information With Birthday Doodle

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The chameleonic Google Doodle is currently marking a very special occasion for Mountain View: today is the search giant’s 14th birthday.

The Birthday Doodle is a rather simplistic affair, compared to some Doodles past (playable Pac-Man was a particular highlight) — showing a layer cake that breaks down to form the Google logo, while the cake’s candles rearrange to chalk up the 14 years since… → Read More

May 23rd, 2012

Today’s Google Doodle Is An Awesome, Playable Moog Synthesizer

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While we don’t make a habit out of covering every iteration of the Google Doodle, today’s version is especially awesome. The doodle is celebrating the birth date of Dr. Robert Moog, the inventor of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer. The what?, you may ask. The synthesizer was an instrument Moog created in the mid-1960′s, which took the music world by storm, and was picked up by artists like… → Read More