Neowin News Feed for: Doodle

Google celebrates its 25th birthday with a doodle featuring its nostalgic logo

Omer Dursun — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:14:01 +0000

Google celebrates its 25th birthday with a nostalgic doodle, showcasing its logo's evolution. The tech giant reflects on its journey, innovations, and services, including YouTube and Android. Read more...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the Olympics with fruity mini games

Justin Luna — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:30:01 +0000

As part of its celebration for this year's Olympics which will be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Google has launched a new Doodle containing a set of mini sports games featuring fruits. Read more...

Google's lack of a D-Day doodle causes outrage

James Walker — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:45:13 +0000

Google UK faced controversy this morning after instead of posting the 70th D-Day anniversary themed doodle many expected to see they chose to replace their logo with a completely unrelated doodle. Read more...

Google puts gay rights front-and-center with Olympic homepage doodle

Andy Weir — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:01:46 +0000

A rainbow-coloured doodle adorns Google's homepage today with an excerpt from the Olympic Charter that forbids "discrimination of any kind", ahead of the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Read more...

Google celebrates Doctor Who's 50th anniversary with new doodle/mini-game

John Callaham — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:41:20 +0000

Google is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who with a new doodle on its main page worldwide that's also a mini-game as the Doctor has to face off with Daleks. Read more...

Google celebrates 15th birthday with pinata doodle and new search algorithm

John Callaham — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:20:54 +0000

Google is celebrating its 15th birthday today with a new interactive logo doodle that lets people hit a pinata. Meanwhile, the company has announced a revamped search algorithm called Hummingbird. Read more...

Google belatedly celebrates Atari's Breakout launch with Easter Egg

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 14 May 2013 07:46:01 +0000

Google has a surprise for Atari Breakout fans. By going to Google's Image search you can access an Easter Egg that actually let you play Breakout with the search results. Read more...

Google notes Alan Turing's 100th birthday with cool doodle

John Callaham — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:11:33 +0000

Google is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth with a new interactive doodle that's a virtual version of the Turing Machine that the late mathematician proposed in the 1930s. Read more...

Animated Google Doodle honors Freddie Mercury's 65th

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:36:19 +0000

Today on the Google homepage is a fully animated and fantastically well made Doodle that pays tribute to legendary Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury, who if he was alive would have turned 65 today Read more...

Doodle 4 Google and win $15k!

Christopher White — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000

What would you like to do someday? Ponder that question well because if you're a kid, it could be worth $15,000 towards your college education. Google is running their 4th annual "Doodle 4 Google" contest... Read more...

Google doodle took five artists six months to create

Matthew Jones — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:23:49 +0000

Before most of us were even thinking about Christmas, a team at Google was working on the unique doodle that appeared on the search engine's front page for just over two days from December 23. Google... Read more...

Queen visits Google and receives a doodle

Tom Warren — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:39:21 +0000

The Queen of the United Kingdom will visit Google's Westminster offices today and Google have marked the occasion with a special "Google doodle". Normally reserved for holidays and anniversaries, the doodle will feature on the... Read more...