Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Labours day 2013 celebrated by Google Doodle


Google is saluting the workers of the world with a building doodle on the occasion of Labour Day.

The doodle features the Google logo in the shape of a building with several workers on their job. 

1st May 2013 Google features Labour's Day Doodle. 
"G" from Google features female IT professional on computer, where as there is gardener at the top of "G" watering a tree. 
"O" from Google features a painter painting O.
"G" There is a helicopter hovering above the second G.
"L" features real-estate around the world.
"E" is indication of modern-day communication which dish antenna at the top and a technician doing a job.

About Labour Day !!

Labour Day is an annual holiday to mark the celebration of the economic and social achievements of workers. It generally sees organised street demonstrations and marches by labourers and their unions, on this day. The purpose of the day is for employers to recognize the work done by their employees. Its also a day meant for workers to rest. It is an official public holiday.

Labours Day in India

In India, Labour Day is celebrated on May 1 every year.  The first May Day celebration in India took place in Madras by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan on May 1, 1923

Labours Day around the World

The Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the state and territory governments, and so it varies considerably.
May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries including Bolivia, India, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Israel, Philippines, Nepal and Pakistan. It is also celebrated unofficially in various other countries.

1st Monday of every October: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia, celebrates Labour Day

1st Monday of every September: Canada  


Sunday, April 21, 2013

Google doodles Earth Day 2013

Google doodles Earth Day 2013



Mountain View, California: Earth Day 2013 is being marked in style by search giant Google with an animated doodle adorning its home page on April 22, 2013.

Doodle shows change in season. Where user can play and pause the animation by clicking in 'sun' and 'moon'. There are also cave, flowers and other clickable area on which special animation shown.


    

Google doodle earth day 2013 Animation starts from morning sunshine spring day and sun moves westwards and sets. Then moon rises and starts its transition and sets.
Its starts raining when user clicks on clouds.

Earth Day is held every year to highlight green issues with events being held around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

First ever Earth Day was held in 1970, although the name and concept was pioneered a year earlier by activist John McConnell.


Google Doodle on Earth Day So Far :

2012: Google posted a flower-themed doodle on its home page. It featured an animated image of blooming flowers in purple, red and yellow colours that spelt Google.
2011: Earth Day doodle that had in it ticklish pandas, frolicking penguins, a growling lion, a cascading waterfall, waterfall climbing fish, a fish devouring bear, birds, butterflies, a koala and a jumping frog.
2010: was the 40th anniversary of the Earth Day and the search engine giant transformed its logo into an illustration of a forest with sunlight filtering through the leaves creating an impression of the Google logo.
2009: Google went partially underwater with its Earth Day doodle to highlight the rich diversity of life in the water.

Friday, April 19, 2013

What is Doodle4Google competitions?

Doodle4Google Competition:

What are Doodles:

Doodle are the fun, surprising and somtims spontaneous changes made to Google logo on Google.com's home page. Google celebrates public holidays, anniversaries, and lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists by changing www.google.com 's home page logo. "Doodles really touch people in a profound way, and make them laugh, and create a human connection between users" says Dutton, who studied illustration at the Art Academy in San Francisco.

About Doodle4Google Competition:

 Once a year, Google hands that paintbrush over to students and invites them to design their very own Google logo in the Doodle 4 Google competition.  Doodle4Google is an annual program that Google conducts for student of different countries, for their country specific domains and country specific events, days.

Like for India Google conducts competition for all students who are attending schools. There are different group for participation Group 1: Class 1-3 ,Group 2: Class 4-6 and Group 3: Class 7-10.  

The 'Doodle 4 Google – Unity in Diversity'  was subject for Doodle4Google competition in 2012 India. 

This year 2013 at United States of America Doodle4Google completion subject was, "My Best Day Ever". The public vote (at www.google.com/doodle4google) will help Google pick the national finalists and winner, who will be announced at a May 22 ceremony in New York — with the winner’s Doodle appearing on the Google.com home-page the following day.

Doodle4Google Prices:

Winning entry of Doodle4Google displays on home page of www.gooogle.com also receives some cool prices.

How Judgement are made?

  1. Groups of ages , use of colors in doodle and artistic hand these factors are considered..
  2. Judgment panel exams representation of theme and use of the Google logo. 
  3. "Subject" of the competition, how well the concept of the theme is expressed and explained.
  4. And finally there is vision statement as "Supporting statement" which is judged by panel experts.


Thursday, April 18, 2013

How Google Doodle started?

Google Doodles

About Doodles:

Google celebrates public holidays, anniversaries, and lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists by changing www.google.com 's home page logo. Doodles are the fun, surprising and games. Over 1000 are published by Google so far. The first google doodle was designed and published in 1999 by  Sergey Brin and Lawerence E. Page  when they were attending the Burning Man Festival to show that they were away if the systems were to crash.

First Google Doodle


Here is Google's first doodle Burning Man Festival.

Since it was the first doodle it was relatively very simple as compare to the other doodles that Google has celebrated. Here the idea of celebrating notable events by creating doodle was born.
In 1998 three doodle were published by Google. Other two doodle were "Google Beta" on 28-Oct-1998 and "Thanksgiving" on 26-Nov-1998.

How its started?


Then in 2000 Google published another doodle it was for "Bastille Day" which was designed by Dennis Hwang who was intern at the time. Then onwards Dennis was appointed as Google's chief doodler. In the beginning, the doodles mostly celebrated familiar holidays; nowadays, they highlight a wide array of events and anniversaries from the Birthday of John James Audubon.

Who decides event and doodle?

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To create a doodle there are group of Googlers who sits togather brainstorms which events to celebrated with doodle. Once event is decided then there are team of talented illustrators and engineers who actually creates doodle for event. They are called as doodlers. Their efforts brings to smiles to Google users by creative doodles.

You can also share your doodle ideas: 

Any one can share their ideas for next Google doodle by an email at proposals@google.com.