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.