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New Delhi:  The digital guitar that Google put up on his home page, to celebrate the 96th birthday of the country and jazz guitarist, songwriter and inventor Les Paul, will stay on for another day, Google informed in a Twitter post. Since Google said it is extending the doodle for US users only, users outside the US can continue to strum the Google Doodle guitar, by clicking on the "Go to Google.com" link on the country-specific Google pages. "Due to popular demand, we're leaving the Les Paul doodle up in the US for an extra day. Thanks for jamming with us!," a post on the official Google Twitter account said. The Google doodle in honour of Les Paul is playable by hovering the cursor over the doodle and even by the computer keyboard. Users could also record the their own 30-second track. The doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas, CSS, Flash and tools like the Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine. Google engineers Kristopher Hom and Jo

New Delhi:  Google has put up a digital version of the legendary electric guitar, the Gibson Les Paul, in place of its logo to celebrate the 96th birthday of the country and jazz guitarist, songwriter and inventor, Lester William Polsfuss, better known as Les Paul. The Google doodle in honour of Les Paul is playable by hovering the cursor over the doodle and even by the computer keyboard. "For the next 24 hours on the Google homepage, you’ll find an interactive, playable logo inspired by the guitar developed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee that made the sound of rock and roll possible," Alexander Chen, a designer with Google's creative lab posted on the official Google blog. Users in the US can also record the their own 30-second track. The doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas, CSS, Flash and tools like the Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine. Google engineers Kristopher Hom and Joey Hurst and doodle team lead Ryan Germick helped p

New Delhi:  The Google doodle breaks into a choreographed dance to celebrate the 117th birthday of American dancer, teacher, and modern dance choreographer Martha Graham. In a career that spanned over half a century Graham created more than 180 works and she herself performed in most. Graham born on May 11, 1894 was one of the three daughters of a doctor. She began her professional career in 1916 and her choreography was influenced by oriental art. For most of her career Graham was the leading figure in American modern dance. She died on April 1, 1991. The animated doodle marking Graham's birthday was preceded by a series of doodles that Google put together to celebrate the 76th birth anniversary of English author and illustrator Charles Roger Hargreaves. Google has now become more frequent with animated and interactive doodles. Of the last 10 Google doodles, five included animations or were interactive. The Google doodle had first gone interactive in May 2010 to celebrate the 30t

New Delhi:  Google has put up at least 16 different doodles on its home page to celebrate the 76th birth anniversary of English author and illustrator Charles Roger Hargreaves. Hargreaves is best known for his series of Mr Men and Little Miss books for children. Born on May 9, 1935, in Cleckheaton, England, Hargreaves worked in his father's dry cleaning business, then moved to the world of advertising and finally came back to his original ambition, cartooning. In 1971, he wrote his first Mr. Men book,  Mr Tickle , which was a runaway success and later led to the animated series  Mr. Men Show , on BBC. A decade later, the Little Miss series of books began to appear. His books have sold millions of copies around the world and have been translated into many languages. Hargreaves died of a stroke on September 11, 1988. While Google has recently been doing a number of animated doodles, the last few have been static images. The different Roger Hargreaves doodles that appear on every ref

New Delhi:  It's the second Sunday of May, and the Google doodle has a greeting card feel about it. It's Mother's Day and Google is wishing all the mothers with its characteristic doodle. While Mother's Day is celebrated on different days in many parts of the world, it is the second Sunday of May (May 8 in 2011) is most widely celebrated. Anna Marie Jarvis, had started a campaign in 1907 following her mother's death to make Mother's Day a recognised holiday in the US. In 1912 she obtained trademarks for the phrases "second Sunday in May" and "Mother's Day" and established the Mother's Day International Association. US President President Woodrow Wilson signed a law making the holiday official. But Jarvis was disappointed with the commercialisation of the event. The ancient Greek and Romans also held festivities in honour of their mother goddesses. In Britain and Celtic Europe, goddess Brigid and later St. Brigid were honoured with a

New Delhi:  A "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" was organised at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London in 1851. The event is also known as the first World's Fair, The Great Exhibition or simply as the Crystal Palace Exhibition. The first World's Fair was held over a period of five and a half months from May 1 to October 15, 1851. Sunday marks the 160th anniversary of the opening of the fair and Google celebrated it with an interactive doodle on its home page. The Google doodle commemorating the event puts together different elements of the fair that are viewable more closely with a magnifying glass effect that appears when a user hovers the cursor over the logo. The first World Fair was primarily organised by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria and inventor Henry Cole. The purpose of the fair was also to showcase the Britain's industrial might to the world. The Koh-i-noor diamond, that the British had seized from India was also

London:  Google on Friday marked the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton with a doodle that features a London street scene and the royal carriage carrying the newlyweds in a shower of confetti. After their marriage, Prince William and Kate will become The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. This is Google's first doodle honouring a wedding. The Google logo on Friday was replaced by the picture of the ornate horse-drawn wedding carriage, Westminster Abbey, a princess's castle and the London Eye in the background amidst a shower of red and white confetti. The image takes users to search results for the British royal wedding with the top entry leading in to a live screening of the ceremony. Wedding guests in elegant attire filed into Westminster Abbey and royal fans lined the streets of London by the thousands, hoping to snatch a glimpse of history as Prince William weds Kate Middleton in a marriage expected to revitalize the royal brand. A third of the planet was foreca

New Delhi:  The doodle in place of the usual Google logo on Tuesday is inspired by the paintings of the famous French-American ornithologist John James Audubon. The doodle celebrating Audubon's birthday has, like many other Google doodles, a pattern of the Google logo visible. In the latest doodle, the Google logo is made up of the branches of the trees the birds in the painting are perched. Audubon was born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), then a French colony, on April 26, 1785 to a French sea captain and plantation owner and his French mistress. He spent his early years in France and immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. He had an avid interest in birds and drawing right from his childhood. He began his study of American birds soon after his arrival in the US while also dabbling in the series of unsuccessful business ventures. He was also briefly jailed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile his interest for drawing birds steadily grew and published the first volume of his illustr

New Delhi : 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 get together on an animated and interactive Google logo to celebrate the 41st Earth Day. The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970 and was founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson. The original Earth Day was attended by about 20 million Americans. The Earth Day movement went global in 1990 and is now celebrated in over 175 countries across the globe. April 22 was officially designated as the international Earth Day by the United Nations in 2009. The day is marked to raise awareness and appreciation for our planet's environment. Google is fast doing away with the static image doodles to celebrate events with more interactive ideas. For Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday the Google home page featured a YouTube video starring members of Google Doodle team enacting a Google-themed Chaplinesque

New Delhi:  "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof but this margin is too small to contain it," Pierre de Fermat famously wrote on the margin of his copy of the  Arithmetica by Diophantus of Alexandria back in 1637. The proof the French mathematician and lawyer was referring to was for his theorem in which he states that no three positive integers x, y, and z can satisfy the equation x n  + y n  = z n  where n is an integer greater than two. Fermat's Last Theorem, also called Fermat's great theorem, was his best known work and to commemorate the 410th birth anniversary of the founder of the modern theory of numbers Google has put up a doodle inspired by it. Instead of a copy of the  Arithmetica , the Google doodle uses a blackboard with a faintly erased Google logo and the theorem written in chalk. Fermat lived for about three decades after he formulated his famous theorem, but did not elaborate on the "truly remarkable proof." Screenshot/Google It was

New Delhi:  A sketch of Delhi's Red Fort takes guard on the Google home page on the occasion of 15 August 2011, India's 65th Independence Day. The Red Fort has an important place in the history of Delhi and that of India. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, the fort was built in 1648 during the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. It remained a focal point in the struggles for the throne of Delhi ever since. It is from the ramparts of the Red Fort that the Prime Minister of India delivers his Independence Day address to the nation. A distinctive feature of the Red Fort since the Independence of India is the fluttering Tricolour atop. But the Indian flag is missing from the Google doodle for August 15, 2011. Google Google has been commemorating India's Independence Day with a doodle on its home page since 2003. Most of the Google doodles had the Indian national flag as the inspiration. The 2011 doodle is an exception where the flag is conspicuous by its absence. F

New Delhi:  A piece of kinetic art took the place of the usual Google logo to celebrate the 113th birthday of American artist and sculptor Alexander Calder. Friday's Google doodle shows a mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture that was invented by Alexander Calder. Mobiles take advantage of the principle of equilibrium and have objects hanging from rods. Kinetic art uses motion for an artistic effect. Mobiles are usually brightly coloured free-moving creations in abstract shapes made from sheet metal. The mobile Google doodle sways on its own and can also be controlled by mouse gestures. Screenshot/US Library of Congress Calder was born on July 22, 1898 in Lawnton, US to a family of artists. While his father and grandfather were both sculptors, his mother was a painter. He graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1919. He then took art lessons. After a brief career in commercial art, Calder moved to Paris an

New Delhi:  An assortment of peas welcomed users to the Google home page on July 20, 2011. The peas arranged in the shape of the Google logo is Google's tribute to Austrian botanist and monk George Mendel on his 189th birth anniversary. Born on July 20, 1822 in Heinzendorf, Austria (now in the Czech Pepublic) as Johann Mendel he was given the name Gregor when he joined a monastery as a novitiate of the Augustinian order. He studied physics and mathematics at Vienna and more importantly studied the anatomy and physiology of plants under botanist Franz Unger. Mendel began his experiments with plant hybridization at a monastery in Brunn. His choice for his experiments was the pea plant (the reason behind the peas in the Google doodle). His experiments led him to formulate the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment, which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. After his experiment with peas, he turned to honeybees. Mendel did not make much efforts to