Happy 40th birthday Sesame Street!

It's hard to believe, but today marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street! Over the past four decades, Sesame Street has been entertaining and educating children all across the world. To pay tribute to the colorful cast of characters, we've been delighted to feature some of your favorites on the Google homepage during the past week. With this effort, we're honored to help support <a href="http://www.sesameworkshop.org/home">Sesame Workshop</a>, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street. It's always great to see the spotlight on children's education, and we hope you enjoyed the homepage doodles as much as we did.<br /><br />And, we have an exciting birthday surprise — for this very special celebration, we're happy to share a <a href="http://www.google.com/logos/sesamestreet.html">high-resolution gallery</a> that includes all of the Sesame Street doodles for you to download. Almost as fun as the doodles themselves, there's even a sneak peak into the photo shoot that yielded <a href="http://www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/sesame-street-ensemble-1200x800.jpg">today's doodle</a>. As an added bonus, you'll also find a few extra characters that spent some time in other countries.<br /><br />From Oscar to Elmo, the whole gang had a ton of fun hanging out with Google this week. So, enjoy the full series again, change your desktop background, hang them around your desk, and join us in celebrating Sesame Street!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience</span>

Happy 40th birthday Sesame Street!

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A la peanut butter sandwiches!

Google doodles celebrate events and anniversaries around the world, while reflecting the personality, interests and quirkiness of Google employees. Today, you likely noticed a pair of familiar feet on the <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google homepage</a>. Leading up to Sesame Street's 40th anniversary on November 10th, we're excited to be featuring some of our favorite characters over the next seven days. Today: Big Bird!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrk4AmijXY8SCHpGMbqbGFOAUmaV_yazFFACn-HLHX0V3F2wPE8mqkfpfUapJd2OoOY0Qn-mPzsLlCJpxl8LkCC9Shd6GnDU3vD5AdDGE5NjxD_uAdZiaYNn4JSu6AXpCVMhWgKpBIfVA/s1600-h/big_bird_google_logo-highres.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400244978433386642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrk4AmijXY8SCHpGMbqbGFOAUmaV_yazFFACn-HLHX0V3F2wPE8mqkfpfUapJd2OoOY0Qn-mPzsLlCJpxl8LkCC9Shd6GnDU3vD5AdDGE5NjxD_uAdZiaYNn4JSu6AXpCVMhWgKpBIfVA/s400/big_bird_google_logo-highres.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 232px;" /></a>Many Googlers grew up on Sesame Street, watching the colorful, seamless blend of education and entertainment. We're delighted to have partnered with Sesame Street to create this special series of doodles, particularly since we share the same values of education, diversity and accessibility. And here's a fun find from the crew at Sesame; they found a little known video clip of Cookie Monster <a href="http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=ad8ad695-155a-11dd-a62f-919b98326687&t=1256774601698&">singing about Google</a> (rhyming it with bugle) way back in 1982 — 16 years before our company even existed.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SdRkdvKy5WI&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SdRkdvKy5WI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />So, happy 40th anniversary, Sesame Street. For those Sesame lovers out there, be sure to check back as we'll feature a different character each day.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience</span>

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A mysterious series for H.G. Wells

You might have noticed an unexplained set of doodles on the Google homepage and a couple tweets from our official Twitter stream, <a href="http://twitter.com/google">@google</a>, over the last two weeks. On September 5th, we posted a doodle with the abduction of our second 'o' and a coded tweet from its alien captors: 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19, which translates into "All your O are belong to us" (a nod to the Japanese video game, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Wing">Zero Wing</a>).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInnmNhYlSX93geyP9B0N07i7tGN01Ow0tLtSdr-mzNjrYuhAh7OtkIYCKrQ2Jv0Jp-aMeeI-3BeI-CllUG72D0LFgbZM0oq9xrz7qXwzxs46MziZBkJvSmkZ8zBTeM76z3e60xfj3Xy2r/s1600-h/go_gle_1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383766814533279858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInnmNhYlSX93geyP9B0N07i7tGN01Ow0tLtSdr-mzNjrYuhAh7OtkIYCKrQ2Jv0Jp-aMeeI-3BeI-CllUG72D0LFgbZM0oq9xrz7qXwzxs46MziZBkJvSmkZ8zBTeM76z3e60xfj3Xy2r/s400/go_gle_1.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 144px;" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>We were delighted that people around the world played along with us and shared their <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ncl=dFakfc8c2RaGIzMGOqyHjkY0-FAjM">theories for why we would have posted this "unexplained phenomenon</a>."<br /><br />Ten days later, the UFO returned. This time, it was to leave its mysterious mark on the fields.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMnSjINuF3Dp4KDxuuiiiUkdCWUTjV9Z4bXM-PtPV6fumO1Ou5NoHJyLOdDZOkJoa5ylWOmFtHNl2-fZmLFHmKeceIGAQfTMQjnWd2i50hgk-jksIIBJ-d2Rm_Fh8lY2b82uVPFRcmp82L/s1600-h/goog_e_2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383766823458096754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMnSjINuF3Dp4KDxuuiiiUkdCWUTjV9Z4bXM-PtPV6fumO1Ou5NoHJyLOdDZOkJoa5ylWOmFtHNl2-fZmLFHmKeceIGAQfTMQjnWd2i50hgk-jksIIBJ-d2Rm_Fh8lY2b82uVPFRcmp82L/s400/goog_e_2.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 144px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">While the link from the doodle to a search for "crop circles" didn't provide any more clues, we also tweeted the lat/long coordinates of <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=horsell+common+england&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.365962,56.513672&ie=UTF8&ll=51.343481,-0.553436&spn=0.029595,0.055189&t=h&z=14&iwloc=A">Horsell Commons</a>, the location of the first alien landing in H.G. Wells 1898 classic, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?q=the+war+of+the+worlds&btnG=Search+Books"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The War of the Worlds</span></a>. Some of you <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/15/google-crop-circle-hg-wells">figured out what we were doing</a>, but we weren't ready to reveal it all just yet.<br /></div><br />Now, we're finally acknowledging the reason for the doodles with an official nod to Herbert George, who would be 143 years old today. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpujaaVQWspdLcIyg1IizoDRmHIl7SLaA7l-T1HxWr53_idWEIC26x_Tx2yiUXikIBrPrteoPxPpBk6Ti7TfUujXq5GauHXMGy_lkoAQ2bm0IJrlzy_GP2lYHA8p5RyQMnNlkdHnY4bs_/s1600-h/hg_wells_birthday2009_part3_highres.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383767868197563858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpujaaVQWspdLcIyg1IizoDRmHIl7SLaA7l-T1HxWr53_idWEIC26x_Tx2yiUXikIBrPrteoPxPpBk6Ti7TfUujXq5GauHXMGy_lkoAQ2bm0IJrlzy_GP2lYHA8p5RyQMnNlkdHnY4bs_/s400/hg_wells_birthday2009_part3_highres.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 181px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Inspiration for innovation in technology and design can come from lots of places; we wanted to celebrate H.G. Wells as an author who encouraged fantastical thinking about what is possible, on this planet and beyond. And maybe have some fun while we were doing it.<br /></div></div><div><br />The invasion of the logo by alien crafts and pods makes our series complete, but you'll have to read the book to find out how Wells' story really ends.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Micheal Lopez, Web Design Lead</span></div>

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Announcing the 2009 Doodle 4 Google Winner

Nearly six million online votes helped us pick the winners of this year's Doodle 4 Google competition from a very creative pool of doodles. Today, we're pleased to announce the results.<br /><br />Congratulations to Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. She titled her doodle "A New Beginning" to express her wish that "out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Vp4d7NlVm5Hst4U7QTFMzpvLxGTVXewDbmWje6DxI6uoozi178WGpahNjZU7qK2QPT_AWJNcRIltc7outrWX317EBtBsM00UzjagC2eiumCDVxTb971OmRICvQsb6uPFdpOOKHmjqJHr/s1600-h/Engelberth_1024x768_close.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337924409467880434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Vp4d7NlVm5Hst4U7QTFMzpvLxGTVXewDbmWje6DxI6uoozi178WGpahNjZU7qK2QPT_AWJNcRIltc7outrWX317EBtBsM00UzjagC2eiumCDVxTb971OmRICvQsb6uPFdpOOKHmjqJHr/s400/Engelberth_1024x768_close.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" /></a><br />Christin will receive a $15,000 college scholarship, a laptop, and a $25,000 technology grant for her school. Her doodle will be featured on the Google.com homepage tomorrow for millions of people around the world to see.<br /><br />Our congratulations also go out to the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/press.html">three national finalists</a>. They were selected as having the best doodle in their grade groups and will each receive a laptop computer:<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Grades K-3</span><br />Miriam Elizabeth Lowery ~ Grade K, Austin Peay Elementary<br />Covington, TN<br />"Friendship Around the World"<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Grades 7-9</span><br />Blakely Linz ~ Grade 7, Indian Hill Middle School,<br />Cincinnati, OH<br />"Stop to Smell the Flowers"<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Grades 10-12</span><br />Emerald Lu ~ Grade 10, Covington Latin School<br />Covington, KY<br />"From the Ashes"<br /><br />Our four winners were announced at a special event today at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, where we also unveiled an exhibit of the top doodles that will be on view until July 5, 2009. The finalists were treated to a day in New York City that included activities which promote peace, sustainability and wellness — all inspired by this year's theme, "What I Wish for the World." And of course, Dennis Hwang and our doodle team led a doodling class for all top <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/winners_region.html">regional finalists</a> in New York city.<br /><br />We have one more winner to announce: Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the recipient of the District Quality Participation Prize. They will receive a $10,000 technology grant for having the greatest quality participation.<br /><br />Thanks to all those who voted and helped us find this year's winners. And thank you to all the creative kids out there who submitted entries. We hope you'll doodle with us next year!<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Update</span></span> @ 10:45 AM: We've posted <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/winners_state.html">all of the state finalists</a> — several hundred doodles in all —on the Doodle 4 Google website and we encourage you to take a look at the beautiful artwork created by these very talented young artists.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager</span></div>

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Vote for the national Doodle 4 Google winner

In February we <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/doodle-4-google-tell-us-what-you-wish.html">invited</a> U.S. kids to exercise their creativity by participating in our second annual Doodle 4 Google contest. In response, we received more than 28,000 doodles from kids representing all 50 states, a 70 percent increase from last year. Inspired by this year's theme, "What I Wish for the World," kids have expressed a variety of wishes, ranging from a world with a pristine environment to a world where imaginations can run free. We were impressed by the incredible spectrum of artwork we received this year, but even more amazed by the artistic talents of the kids who created them. Thanks to all those who doodled with us!<br /><br />Today, we're pleased to announce the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/winners_state.html">approximately 400 state finalists </a>and the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html">40 regional winners</a>. They were chosen by a <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/judges.html">panel of independent judges</a>, all experts in design, but now it's your turn. We invite you to help us select the four national finalists by voting on your favorite doodle in each grade group. You can place your votes on the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html">Doodle 4 Google website</a> until May 18 at midnight Pacific time. We'll announce the results — along with the winner — on May 20th, and the winning doodle will appear on our homepage the following day. If you happen to be visiting New York City, you can drop in and see the doodles of all 40 finalists in an exhibit at the Smithsonian's <a href="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/">Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum</a>, which will run May 21 - July 5, 2009.<br /><br />So please take a look at our regional winners' inspiring doodles, <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html">vote</a> on your favorites, and help us decide which of these great doodles will be seen on the Google homepage by millions of people around the world.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Update</span> @ 10:00 AM PST:</span> This post was revised to more accurately reflect the number of state finalists.<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">Update</span></span> on May 20, 2009 @ 10:45 AM: We've posted <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/winners_state.html">all of the state finalists</a> — several hundred doodles in all —on the Doodle 4 Google website and we encourage you to take a look at the beautiful artwork created by these very talented young artists.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager</span></div>

Vote for the national Doodle 4 Google winner

In February we invited U.S. kids to exercise their creativity by participating in our second annual Doodle 4 Google contest. In response, w...

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Doodle 4 Google — tell us what you wish for the world

<a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298566834192806530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvUQyWFkCj5uQeQtSBO0E5eQ2TNQKm5FpGwQhaC967uhtJkojSZWluIc1U22eTs0AekgvaPcP5qHMDk68PGonAXnA-GUdS-ZHyap8_PAmTeyiTpTEOwScvcJYWuTN95jQ4K5QsiVXzMBM/s400/d4g_us09_webfinal.gif" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 80px; width: 175px;" /></a>Today, we're announcing our second annual Doodle 4 Google contest in the U.S. Google doodles are the special "dressed-up" logos we run on our homepage for holidays and other events, and Doodle 4 Google is an opportunity for one child to have his/her artwork displayed on our homepage as a doodle for hundreds of millions of people to see. This year's theme is "What I Wish for the World," as we really want to tap into not only children's creativity but also what they want their future to look like.<br /><br />We're very excited this year to be partnering with the <a href="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/">Smithsonian's, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum</a>. Since Cooper-Hewitt is focused on design and education and fostering the brightest design minds of tomorrow, they were a natural partner for Doodle 4 Google. Their partnership also means that this year's prizes not only include having your artwork on the Google homepage for a day, a college scholarship, and a technology grant for your school, but also having your work (and that of all 40 finalists) exhibited at a Smithsonian museum!<br /><br />Most of this year's contest remains the same as last year's. (For inspiration, you can see Grace Moon's beautiful winning doodle "<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1f_09jlrbYTmDTynDCoD-d-0_NGpXzU4aVcaIG4_th0kjdOTpB0LDbRkOG8iWjHoPKB0DB-J5kan1ZX5n7l0ph0mVYeuxgfZsQgH6u7Z_3YiRpOiAKyoYFpvyLOc3VtnhaNh-gXEpsDv/s1600-h/D4G_2008.gif">Up In the Clouds</a>" in our <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/regional_winners_2008.html#">Doodle Gallery</a>). However, there are a few changes. First, we've increased the college scholarship prize for the national winner to $15,000. We've also added a $10,000 prize for the school district that submits the most high-quality entries. Finally, in partnership with Cooper-Hewitt, we'll be celebrating the 40 finalists and announcing the national winner in New York City, to coincide with the opening of the exhibit. Please visit the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/">official competition website</a> for a full listing of all contest rules and requirements.<br /><br />Only students from registered schools can enter, so teachers, if you want to participate please register your school by March 17, 2009. All doodles must be submitted by March 31, 2009.<br /><br />Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience

Doodle 4 Google — tell us what you wish for the world

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About our Veterans Day logo

Today is <a href="http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/index.asp">Veterans Day</a> in the U.S., a day to honor all veterans of military service. As we often do, we created a special design of the Google logo (which we call a "doodle") in honor of the event. The design for the doodle featured a few military-style hats. We weren't trying to represent all of the branches or all of the symbols of military service and, as a result of space and design limitations, we inadvertently left the <a href="http://www.uscg.mil/" title="U.S. Coast Guard" target="_blank">U.S. Coast Guard</a> out of our depiction.<br /><br />Understandably, we have heard from many veterans and Coast Guard members, and have now posted an updated version of our Veterans Day doodle, including all five branches of the military. <br /><br />Our sincere apologies for what may seem like a slight -- this was not in any way our intention. Our thanks to those of you who were alert enough to catch our omission and diligent enough to tell us about it. Thank you very much to all current and former Coast Guard members for your outstanding service. And finally, thank you very much to all U.S. veterans, for protecting our nation and the ideals it stands for. <br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Chief Doodler and Webmaster</span>

About our Veterans Day logo

Today is Veterans Day in the U.S., a day to honor all veterans of military service. As we often do, we created a special design of the Goog...

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Ten years and counting

The Google doodle tradition started a long time ago (in <a title="1999" href="http://www.google.com/holidaylogos99.html" id="fzjy">summer 1999</a>, in fact) when Larry and Sergey put a <a title="stick figure" href="http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/#doodle-a-doodle-is-born" id="d_ee">stick figure</a> on the homepage to signify that they were out of the office at <a title="Burning Man" href="http://www.burningman.com/" id="ip7:">Burning Man</a>. Nothing against stick figures, but our logo designs have become rather more varied since then. Today you'll see a special design that commemorates our 10th birthday. We've incorporated a little bit of history by using the original Google logo from 1998. And since everyone keeps asking what we'd like for our birthday (besides cake and party hats) -- the first thing we thought of was a nice new server rack.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTxkSBYcnkJjHLqpO4cTdBDQ-S-nDC3d-YJ9UUG0e8d2UsvitLdKAs0GLp_BipdZuZ94MaGh77PJuIjO7j0CdQ2IwkUJp4t8IZVTVTj2IvpELgHznxstdPUw9eXSKkTl72OwIaIh9qNEM/s1600-h/birthday10th_comp_020.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250967521579133810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTxkSBYcnkJjHLqpO4cTdBDQ-S-nDC3d-YJ9UUG0e8d2UsvitLdKAs0GLp_BipdZuZ94MaGh77PJuIjO7j0CdQ2IwkUJp4t8IZVTVTj2IvpELgHznxstdPUw9eXSKkTl72OwIaIh9qNEM/s320/birthday10th_comp_020.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Update:</span> Added image.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster</span>

Ten years and counting

The Google doodle tradition started a long time ago (in summer 1999 , in fact) when Larry and Sergey put a stick figure on the homepage to ...

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We have a Doodle 4 Google national winner!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager and Chief Doodler</span><br /><br />The results are in from last week's <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/your-vote-matters.html">public vote</a> for its favorite doodle from the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google">Doodle 4 Google art competition</a>, in which we invited students in grades K-12 to design the Google logo around the theme "What if...?"<br /><br />Today, we're pleased to announce the winner: Grace (Suryung) Moon, a 6th grader from Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, California. Her creation, "Up in the Clouds" was selected for its artistry and creativity as well as for its interpretation of our "What if...?" theme. Grace's doodle will replace our regular logo on our homepage tomorrow, May 22nd, and Grace will be awarded a $10,000 college scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for her school in recognition of this achievement.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1f_09jlrbYTmDTynDCoD-d-0_NGpXzU4aVcaIG4_th0kjdOTpB0LDbRkOG8iWjHoPKB0DB-J5kan1ZX5n7l0ph0mVYeuxgfZsQgH6u7Z_3YiRpOiAKyoYFpvyLOc3VtnhaNh-gXEpsDv/s1600-h/D4G_2008.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202982836064109954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1f_09jlrbYTmDTynDCoD-d-0_NGpXzU4aVcaIG4_th0kjdOTpB0LDbRkOG8iWjHoPKB0DB-J5kan1ZX5n7l0ph0mVYeuxgfZsQgH6u7Z_3YiRpOiAKyoYFpvyLOc3VtnhaNh-gXEpsDv/s320/D4G_2008.gif" style="cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 116px;" /></a><br /></div>Congratulations also go to the three national finalists. They were selected as having the best doodle in their grade groups and will each receive a laptop computer:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Grades K-3</span><br /> Spencer Norton ~ Ashbrook Elementary School, Lumberton, NJ<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> Grades 7-9</span><br /> Rebecca Olene ~ Pioneer Ridge Freshmen Center, Carver, Minnesota<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> Grades 10-12</span><br /> Gabriel Kitzman ~ Elbert School Dist. #200, Kiowa, Colorado<br /><br /></div>To celebrate our winner and <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/finalists.html">all of the talented finalists</a>, we held an awards ceremony at the Googleplex for the 40 regional winners today. The finalists and their families joined us for a fun-filled day with activities ranging from face painting to a doodling master class with our own Chief Google Doodler <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/doodler.html" id="zwpn">Dennis Hwang</a>, and we couldn't have had more fun.<br /><br />Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's Doodle 4 Google competition. We enjoyed seeing the creativity and imagination of students across the U.S. and hope you did too.

We have a Doodle 4 Google national winner!

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Your vote matters

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager and Chief Doodler</span><br /><br />A couple of months ago, we announced the <a id="tkgu11" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-if-you-could-have-your-doodle-on.html" title="Doodle 4 Google art competition">Doodle 4 Google art competition</a> and invited students in grades K-12 across the U.S. to redesign our logo around the theme "What if...?".<br /><br />Since then, more than 16,000 kids across the country have been busy creating their doodles. It's been a lot of fun for us and the kids (see for yourself in this video):<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BJZ2WA8EClo&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BJZ2WA8EClo&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Today we're excited to announce the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/finalists.html">state finalists and 40 regional winners</a>. The thousands of wonderful entries made judging difficult, but with the help of experts at Young Audiences, Teach for America and reporters from across the country, we've managed to narrow the field to the very best.<br /><br />Now it's your turn. Starting today, you can <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html">vote</a> for your favorite doodle. Your votes will determine the four national finalists. Just make sure to vote soon: you only have until May 18th. The national winner will be announced and the winning doodle will replace our usual logo on the Google homepage on May 22nd.

Your vote matters

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What if... you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day?

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager and Chief Google Doodler</span><br /><br />Today, we're excited to announce the Doodle 4 Google competition.<br /><br />Every once in awhile, we redesign the logo (a.k.a. Google Doodle) on our homepage to commemorate special birthdays and events. Dennis Hwang draws these <a href="http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html">Google Doodles</a> (check out this cool time-lapse video of Dennis creating the latest one):<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TOOY0xuQ3TU&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TOOY0xuQ3TU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />However, with the Doodle 4 Google competition, we're making an exception...<br /><br />Doodle 4 Google gives U.S. students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design a doodle for the Google homepage. Students will be asked to draw a doodle that best represents the theme <span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"What if...?"</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> We ask ourselves this question every day when we build our products, so we thought we would ask the same of the future doodlers.</span></span><br /><br />A panel of expert judges and Googlers will select 40 regional winners, who will be invited to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, in May. Four national finalists will be announced as the result of a public vote. From there, Dennis will select one lucky student whose doodle will be on the Google homepage for a day in the U.S. This winner will also receive a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">$10,000 </span>college scholarship and a technology grant for his or her school.<br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><u>www.google.com/doodle4google</u></span></a> for more details. All you need to do to get started is to have a teacher or principal register your school. Registration closes on 3/28/08, and entries must be postmarked by 4/12/08.<br /><br />So gather those art supplies. All it takes to enter is a drawing on paper using your favorite medium (crayons, markers, colored pencils, whatever!) -- and encourage your kids to enrich us all with their imaginative vision. We look forward to seeing the creative doodles that are submitted!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/index.html"></a>

What if... you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day?

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Strawberries are red, stems are green...

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dennis Hwang, Google Doodler</span><br /><br />You may have noticed today's <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html">Google Doodle</a> on our <a href="http://www.google.com/">homepage</a> in celebration of romance and good food (something we consider extremely important).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKB6VSEE66HNke_8OTx7FicT8jFOBunqfGFEk4JCIvW619VIUCafP0mnKSwmCAI4FynX8vg6ocwCDYlVHbL1-Q85g39aExMrnwV5oqY7e1dd9ipv7FplVlk1aRUOtabPxFoQ2za-R6eZEX/s1600-h/V+Day+image.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031447915006321154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKB6VSEE66HNke_8OTx7FicT8jFOBunqfGFEk4JCIvW619VIUCafP0mnKSwmCAI4FynX8vg6ocwCDYlVHbL1-Q85g39aExMrnwV5oqY7e1dd9ipv7FplVlk1aRUOtabPxFoQ2za-R6eZEX/s320/V+Day+image.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />When you look at the logo, you may worry that we forgot our name overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided that "Googe" has a better ring to it. None of the above. I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately. And if you're feeling grouchy today, may I suggest eating a strawberry.<br /><br />A very happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

Strawberries are red, stems are green...

Posted by Dennis Hwang, Google Doodler You may have noticed today's Google Doodle on our homepage in celebration of romance and good ...

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History is cool for school

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Oliver Rickman, UK Corporate Communications Team, and Kate Hammond, UK Product Marketing Team</span><br /><br />You might be thinking most kids are only interested in celebrities and the next cool thing -- but not 15,000 British kids. This lot, between the ages of 4 and 18, ditched celebrity-watching in favour of good old-fashioned historical figures when they sent in their drawings to our <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google">Doodle 4 Google competition</a>. (You may recall our informal name for this contest was <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/day-off-for-dennis.html">"Day Off for Dennis."</a>) Given the theme of ‘My Britain’ as their inspiration, school children up and down the UK got creative with the Google logo, hoping to see their entry on the Google homepage. Nearly half (45%) of their entries included monuments and historical figures from Big Ben to the Blackpool tower, and from the Queen to Shakespeare. Everyone at the London Googleplex was really impressed with how passionate the kids were about Britain, not to mention their talent. <br /><br />And though some of you may laugh about British food, we were proud to see that a quarter of entries featured <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=fish+and+chips&btnG=Search+Images">fish and chips</a>, proving what we all already knew – that you can’t beat traditional British grub!<br /><br />On Monday and Tuesday, we met thousands of children whose entries made it into the finals at the Science Museum in London. The wrapup gave them a chance to check out each others' designs and talk about their Doodles -- and of course it gave us the exciting job of announcing and congratulating the fantastic winner, 13-year-old Katherine Chisnall, from the South West of England. Aside from her day of fame on the Google.co.uk homepage, Katherine and her family will be soon be visiting our <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=&btnG=Search+Images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il">world headquarters</a> in Mountain View, California. The whole event was great fun, and who knows? Maybe we've identified some rising stars for Dennis' crew. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/UK_doodle_winner.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/UK_doodle_winner.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a>

History is cool for school

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How long is 8 years in Internet time?

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dennis Hwang, Webmaster</span><br /><br />This week we celebrate Google's 8th birthday, and I hope you like the commemorative logo that appears on today's homepage:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/Google_logo_8thbday-769595.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/Google_logo_8thbday-761868.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a> Having worked at Google for 6 years, I've been lucky enough to design our birthday images (and <a href="http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html">a lot of other doodles</a>). I hope you enjoy reading the candles. :)

How long is 8 years in Internet time?

Posted by Dennis Hwang, Webmaster This week we celebrate Google's 8th birthday, and I hope you like the commemorative logo that appears ...

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Day off for Dennis

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rupert van Millingen, Google UK</span><br /><br />From time to time, we like to reflect the world we live in through the logo designs on our home page. These <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html">Google 'doodles'</a> are designed exclusively by the original Doodler, <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html">Dennis Hwang</a>. Here in the UK, we wanted to let Dennis have the day off and give someone local the chance to get their artwork in front of millions. After a successful <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/thanks-victoria-doodlers.html">pilot competition</a> in 2005, we're pleased to tell you that our 2006 "Doodle 4 Google - My Britain" competition is now open and accepting doodles from pupils ages 4-18 in all schools across the UK.<br /><br />A panel of experts will judge, narrowing the submissions down to a Top 30 and the public will vote for their favorites. The winning doodle will be hosted on the <a href="http://www.google.co.uk">Google.co.uk</a> home page for a day, and also bag the artist a trip for four to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. To get your (again, UK) school involved, please check out <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google">Doodle 4 Google - My Britain</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/UK_doodle_paintpot-756541.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/UK_doodle_paintpot-745709.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Day off for Dennis

Posted by Rupert van Millingen, Google UK From time to time, we like to reflect the world we live in through the logo designs on our home pa...

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Gamesmanship

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team</span><br /><br />There's nothing we love more at Google than a public event that gives us an excuse to trot out some celebratory bells and whistles. Case in point: the 2006 Winter Games, now playing in Torino, Italy and on a wide-screen TV and, yes, computer screen very near you. How can Google help enhance your enjoyment of the world's finest athletes competing in one of the world's most gloriously wintry natural settings without actually getting up out of your office chair? Let us count the ways...<br /><br />To begin with, <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html">our man Dennis</a> is publishing a series of Torino-themed doodles showcasing the different events; check back with <a href="http://www.google.com/">our home page</a> early and often over the next couple weeks to see how the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle11.html">series</a> progresses -- and for the historically minded, take a look at earlier doodles for <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/doodle3.html">Sydney '00</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/doodle5.html">Salt Lake '02</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle8.html">Greece '04</a>. <br /><br />Our intrepid in-house satellite globetrotters, meanwhile, have updated <a href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a> and <a href="http://local.google.com/local?q=torino&t=k">Google Local</a> with high resolution imagery of the Torino area; you can read more about what the Earth folks have in store for you <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/virtually-torino.html">just below</a>. <br /><br />Speaking of vicarious thrills: want to surf the same web pages the athletes themselves will be perusing? The <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/lenovo.ilounge2?gl=uk">Lenovo i.lounge Start Page</a> is the official homepage at the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Athlete</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Villages</st1:placetype></st1:place> and various other Winter Games VIP locations. It features no less than 8 Google products and should prove useful to thousands of hungry, lost, homesick, bored, news-hungry or otherwise information-needing athletes. And you can noodle around on them, too.<br /></p> <p>Finally, if you're from Italy, France, Great Britian, Switzerland, Austria, Greece or Spain and are interested in employing your geek skills to win a Fiat Sedici, throw yourself headlong into the <a href="http://www.sedicicontest.it/google/en/index.jsp">Fiat/Google Earth Contest</a>, which involves using Google Earth to sniff out a Torino location big enough to hide a car but (presumably) small enough to not be totally obvious within a few minutes. Those who aren't fortunate enough to reside in one of those countries can still enter to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy for a Ferrari 360 Experience (I don't know exactly what that is, but it certainly sounds cool).<br /><br />Good luck to fanatical Fiat finders and to all the athletes at the Winter Games.

Gamesmanship

Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team There's nothing we love more at Google than a public event that gives us an excuse to trot ou...

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Thanks Victoria doodlers!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dennis Hwang, Webmaster and <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html">Google Doodler</a>.</span><br /><br />Last week Google opened our new office in the Victoria area of London, and to mark the occasion we invited students from nearby schools to create their own Google Doodles from our logo. My fellow judges and I were basically considering three qualities: the originality of the doodle idea or topic; integration of the design with the Google logo; and sheer creativity. We received hundreds of entries with all sorts of themes, ranging from serious topics like the Asian tsunami and the Battle of Trafalgar to an entire logo transformed into a bunch of eyes staring at each other. In the end, we chose <a href="http://www.google.com/events/doodle4google.html">these five finalists</a>. And our winner, which graced our <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/">U.K. home page</a> for a full day, was this charming doodle from 11-year-old Lisa Waiwaina:<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/uk_doodle4google-772374.gif" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In the end, I was simply blown away by the amazing quality of the work, especially from younger artists up to around age 11 (the bunnies drawn by 5-year-olds were simply awesome). It was a good reminder that staying in touch with one’s inner child can be a key to creativity. Now, back to my secret agenda of searching for a young apprentice...

Thanks Victoria doodlers!

Posted by Dennis Hwang, Webmaster and Google Doodler . Last week Google opened our new office in the Victoria area of London, and to mark th...

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