Posts Tagged "Google doodle"

Google Doodle Today : London 2012 basketball – Google doodle game

Google Doodle London Olympics Basketball

With few more days before London Olympics 2012 ends, Google doodle features basketball, and it’s a game type doodle. Although I’ve been following Google doodles but missed a lot of them, London 2012 basketball is something that’s most interesting IMO among the doodles for London Olympics. Moving on with the…

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Google Doodle Today : Gustav Klimt’s 150th Birthday

Google Doodle Today Gustav Klimts 150th Birthday

In honor to Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt on his 150th birth anniversary, Google pays tribute with a doodle depicting one of his more prominent works. Above’s Google doodle represents “The Kiss,” Klimt’s painting of a couple kissing. Clicking the image from Google.com’s website will lead to search results about Gustav…

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Google Doodle Today : Philippines 114th Independence Day

Google Doodle Philippine Independence Day

Google joins the Filipinos as they celebrate The Philippines 114th Independence Day as the giant search engine site replace its logo with Google doodle of Philippine flag. On June 12, 1898 in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines, the Act of the Declaration of Independence was read in public headed by Gen. Emilio…

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Google Doodle Today : Howard Carter’s 138th Birthday

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As part of Google’s tradition, Google doodle today honors Howard Carter’s 138th birthday. Howard Carter, born May 9, 1874, in Kensington, London, an archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Howard’s interest about Egyptologist started when his father painted a portrait of a well-known Egyptologist. During the late 19th…

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Google Doodle Today : Gideon Sundback’s 132nd Birthday

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Google doodle today honors  132nd birthday of Gideon Sundback, the man who invented zipper. Google doodle for zipper man Gideon Sundback shows a large vertical zipper across the Google logo. Here’s a bit of information about Gideon Sundback from Wikipedia, Born April 24, 1880 Ödestugu Parish, Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden Died…

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Google Doodle Today : Robert Doisneau’s 100th Birthday

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Robert Doisneau, another personality from the arts photography gets honored by Google doodle today as he celebrate his supposed 100th birthday. Robert Doisneau was born 14 April 1912 at Gentilly, Val-de-Marne  and died on April 1, 1994. Doisneau was a French photographer who later pioneered photojournalism along with Henri Cartier-Bresson….

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