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Charles Addams doodle

Google honors the American cartoonist Charles Addams with a „horror“ doodle. Charles Addams was known for his black humor and macabre characters. Since 1932 his Cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, a famous american magazin. In 1938 his first „Addams family“ chacters were published, but without any names. Read on »

Google celebrates New Year’s Eve and / or New Year’s Day with a nice doodle (the Google logo as a funny story-telling image). It seems that the characters are individuals and have a nice party. It is a static doodle without animation. But I have done a Video out of this where I animated roughly the action in the drawing. Read on »

Robert Noyce Doodle

Today Google honors Robert Noyce, „the Mayor of Silicon Valley“. He was born 1927 (84 years ago) in Burlington, Iowa. Robert Noyce is credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit. 1957 Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor. 1968 he co-founded Intel. Robert Noyce was granted 16 patents. He was also a mentor and father-figure to an entire generation of entrepreneurs. Read on »

Diego Rivera Doodle

Google honors the great Mexican painter Diego Rivera. He was born 125 years ago. The doodle shows a mural (wall painting) of the Google logo. Diego Rivera was born in 1886 to a well-to-do family. From the age of ten, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos. From 1907 to 1921 Rivera lived in Europe where he gets in contact with famous modern painters. His works are influenced by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Paul Cézanne. Read on »

Mark Twain doodle

Today Google honors the American author and humorist Mark Twain with a doodle on the homepage. Mark Twain was born in 1835 in Missouri, USA – 167 years ago. When he was four, his family moved to a port town on the Mississippi River.Mark Twain was a restless artist with many interests and ideas. The doodle shows three scene with two boys. They are inspired by Twains most famous figures: Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Seems that they want to overpaint the Google logo. Read on »

Stanislaw Lem Doodle

60 years ago one of the first books of Stanislaw Lem was published: „the Arstonauts“. Google honors the Polish godfather of science fiction and future philosophy with an amazing Doodle. It is an intactive animation. You have to solve some problems before you get the solution keys. With these keys a „Universal Machine“ could be created. It gives you all you want. But in the end someone wishes „nothing“. And consequently the mechine deletes itself and everything else. The result is noting – on the Google homepage. Read on »

2 hours until universal search

This is amzing: today i noticed for the first time that an actual indexed image is shown in the images-onebox on the Google result page. Usually it took about 24 – 96 hours until new images are indexed by Google – this depends on the crawling rate of the images bot. But today I saw a two hours old image in the images onebox – while searching for the actual Google doodle „Louis Daguerre„. Here a sceenshot of this of the englisch result-page: Read on »

Louis Daguerre doodle

Google celebrates Louis Daguerre’s 224th birthday with a nice doodle. It looks like an old-fashioned photography. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851) was a French artist and physicist. In his time he became famous as a theatrical illusion-designer. Today he is recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype (1839). The daguerreotype is a single image which is not reproducible. It was the first commercially successful photographic process. Read on »

+1 for Google images

Today Google started the personalization of the image-search. If you are logged in with your Google-account you can give a +1 for every image in the imagesearch. Just roll over an image: in the popup-window with the larger thumbnail and some other information you will find the new +1 button for images. By clicking you recommend this image for every friend in your GooglePlus-network. They could see it (that means your name) when this image is display in any search. Read on »

Halloween 2011 Google Doodle

Google celebrates Halloween with an amazing Doodle. It is a time-lapsed video of some artist that carve the google logo in some giant pumpkins. Absolut awesome. As it says in Googles video description: „A fun time-lapse video of the Google doodle team & friends carving giant pumpkins in the Halloween spirit. Shot on location at Google’s Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Music by Slavic Soul Party! Composed by Matt Moran“. Read on »