The 50 best google doodles

Best Google Doodle Designs Ever - Top 50

Doodles are the spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo in celebration of holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists who have helped shape history. You can always visit www.google.com/doodles to see all those that have run around the world since 1998. It’s constantly updated as new doodles are featured on the home page so come back often!

01. Women's Day 2013

The doodle itself is a little bit of an optical illusion, since the word "Google" appears in the empty spaces between the faces. Posted by Betsy Bauer, Doodler.

02. 123rd anniversary of Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in the central eastern portion of the U.S. state of California.

03. First Day of Spring 2014

Google celebrated with an animation of a person walking across the search bar while pouring a watering can, resulting in seeds sprouting, growing into plants and flowers blossoming to form the doodle.

04. International Women's Day 2014

On the eve of International Women's Day, Google celebrated with an interactive doodle displaying 27 female gender symbols, i.e. Venus symbols, and a video featuring more than 100 women of the world with music by Zap Mama.

05. Percy Julian's 115th Birthday

Google commemorated Dr. Julian -- American research chemist and pioneer in synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants -- along with his work in a doodle displaying chemical structures of cortisone obtained from soybean and physostigmine derived from Calabar bean, and various laboratory equipment

06. Jules Verne's 183rd Birthday

Google ran one of its most interactive Doodles in honor of science fiction author Jules Verne's 183rd birthday.

07. Teachers Day 2014 - Mexico

In many countries, Teachers' Days (or Teachers Day) are intended to be special days for the appreciation of teachers.

08. Robert Moog's 78th Birthday

Google celebrated Robert Moog's 78th birthday, an American pioneer of electronic music, known for his invention of the Moog synthesizer.

09. Dorothea MacKellar's 126th Birthday

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, OBE was an Australian poet and fiction writer.

10. Robert Doisneau's 100th Birthday

Google celebrated the 100th birthday of Robert Doisneau, a French photographer specialized in street photography.ThIS featured a collection of four of his most famous photographs; "the boy on a bike" the letter G of Google, the two o's with the female sculpture photo, the lower part of the second G was printed in the toy dog photo and the remaining part of the second G with the letter L and letter E were placed inside the “Kiss by the Hotel de Ville″.

11. Julia Child's 100th Birthday

Google honored Julia Child on her 100th birthday, an American chef, author, and television personality. The doodle featured Julia along with a table full of food items like cake, fish and turkey, arranged in a way to form the letters of the Google logo.

12. India Republic Day 2014

Google celebrated India's Republic Day with a Doodle.

13. Louis Daguerre's 224th Birthday

Google's logo was depicted in a doodle featuring a family photo doodle to honor Louis Daguerre on his 224th birthday. The French painter and physicist was the inventor of daguerreotype, the first successful form of photography.

14. Jim Henson's 75th Birthday

Google replaced its logo with 6 small adaptations of the Muppets that interact via mouse, for honor of the 75th birthday of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.

15. Father's Day

Father's Day is June 15, 2014 in many countries. It is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood

16. Halloween 2011

Google celebrated Halloween with six enormous pumpkins being carved in a time-lapse video by a series of Google employees. They are joined by a variety of costumed characters, other workers, and cleaners as the video shows the progress of the pumpkin carvings interspersed with other amusing activities.

17. Parkes Observatory's 50th Anniversary

The Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory, 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.

18. Halloween 2012

Google celebrated Halloween by featuring a doodle with a haunted mansion numbered 13 with scary and bizarre creatures around it.

19. Ruby Payne-Scott's 100th Birthday

Google Australia celebrated the 100th birthday of Australian astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott, the first female radio astronomer.

20. Google's 15th Birthday

Google is celebrating its 15th birthday with a piñata doodle appearing on its home page.

21. New Year's Eve 2013

The Doodle followed on from the one for New Year's Eve, with the 4 having replaced a rather sad 3.

22. Constantin Brancusi's 135th Birthday

Google is celebrating its 15th birthday with a piñata doodle appearing on its home page.

23. 100th Anniversary of the Crossword Puzzle

Google's US page celebrated the 100th anniversary of the crossword puzzle with an interactive crossword puzzle.

24. Bastille Day

Bastille Day is the name given in English speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July each year.

25. Will Eisner's 94th Birthday

The Google logo was a selection Will Eisner's works, moving away from the tradition Catull font and the traditional blue, red, orange, and green colors for a day.

26. Latvian Independence Day

18 November-The Latvian Independence day. The proclamation of Republic of Latvia 18 November 1918.

27. Claude Debussy's 151st Birthday

On August 22, 2013, the anniversary of Claude Debussy's birthday, was observed with a celebratory Google Doodle that played the first half of Clair de Lune.

28. Earth Day

Google celebrated the 44th anniversary of Earth Day with a doodle featuring five animations of different species -- dung beetle, moon jellyfish, puffer fish, Japanese macaques, Rufous hummingbird and veiled chameleon.

29. Children's Day 2010

The search engine giant has featured the work of Gayatri Ketharaman to celebrate Children's Day.

30. 20th Anniversary of the Wallace and Gromit Characters

31. 122nd Birthday of Charlie Chaplin

Google featured the first video doodle, with members of the Google Doodle team enacting a Google-themed scene, to commemorate Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday, replacing the Catull font with the font for the New York Times logo for two days.

32. 150th Anniversary of the Tube

The 150th anniversary of London Underground coincided with a Doodle based on the Tube map.

33. Israel Independence Day 2013

The event is celebrated annually in Israel with a national holiday Yom Ha'atzmaut (Hebrew: יום העצמאות‎, lit. Independence Day) on 5 Iyar of every year.

34. Hurdles 2012

Based on hurdling, the twelfth doodle of the Olympic series was an interactive one, which allowed the user to participate in a single-player hurdles race, with an 'O' converted into the start button. Left-right arrow keys were used to run, while space bar was used to jump over the 10 hurdles in the race.

35. Gerard Oury's 95th Birthday

Gérard Oury (April 29, 1919 – July 20, 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.

36. Ustad Alla Rakha's 95th Birthday

Google India celebrated the 95th anniversary of tabla Ustad Alla Rakha's birthday with a doodle consisting of an illustration of him playing a tabla.

37. Venezuela Independence Day 2012

 Venezuela officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America.

38. Inauguration of Hartland Bridge

Google Canada celebrated the 111th anniversary of the Hartland Covered Bridge, with a doodle. The doodle featured the covered bridge in place of the 'O's and 'G', and the letters 'L' and 'E' coming out of the bridge.

39. 30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN

Mini version of game, originally created as an animated logo for the game's 30th anniversary on May 22, 2010.

40. Chabuca Granda's 92nd Birthday

One of the most important vocalists in the history of Peruvian music, Chabuca Granda continued to make her presence felt a decade after her death in 1983.

41. Emma Gad's 161th Birthday

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42. Grandparents' Day 2013

Grandparents Day is the second Sunday in September.

43. Grandparents' Day 2012

National Grandparents' Day is a secular holiday celebrated in the United States.

44. Cahit Arf's 100th Birthday

Cahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.

45. Valentine's Day and George Ferris' 154th Birthday

Google celebrated Valentine's Day and also the 154th birthday of an American engineer George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. in a single doodle. The doodle was interactive, with a heart shape button in the middle, which when clicked, rotates the two ferris at both of its side.

46. Les Paul's 96th Birthday

Google celebrated the 96th birthday of the late jazz and country guitarist Les Paul with an interactive guitar that can be played, and includes the ability to record and playback. 

47. Julius Richard Petri's 161st Birthday 

Google honored German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri dish, on his 161st birthday.

48. William John Swainson's 224th Birthday

 William Swainson FLS, FRS, was a British ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.

49. César Milstein's 73rd Birthday

César Milstein, FRS was a Argentinian biochemist, ] in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler.

50. Mother's Day / Doodle 4 Google 2010 - Thailand Winner

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring one's own mother, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.