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  It's happy holidays time on Google's home page for the second day in a row. Just like the doodle on Christmas Eve, Wednesday's Google doodle is rather simple, instead of the more interactive ones we've seen in recent times. The latest  Google doodle , which depicts an unidentifiable city enveloped in festive cheer, with buildings lit up and a Christmas tree marking the occasion, features a message from the company when users roll their cursors over it, saying "'Tis the season!" The doodle first appeared early Christmas morning for regions near the international dateline, such as New Zealand. It is now visible in India as well, at the google.co.in page.  On clicking the image, users are redirected to a  Google  search page, with results for the search term 'Happy Holidays' being shown. Unfortunately, the results page doesn't show too much cheer, with news results, followed by images and videos, and a relatively irrelevant Wikipedia entry

This year's 'happy holidays'doodle showcases two children riding on a sleigh in the snow run by a horse. NEW DELHI:   Happy Holidays ! Google, on Tuesday, wishes 'happy holidays' to its users with a doodle on its home page.   The search engine giant has been wishing its users consistently with attractive   Christmas eve doodles.   This year's doodle showcases two children riding on a sleigh in the snow run by a horse. Trees without leaves are also seen in the doodle. If you move the crusor on the doodle then a message 'Happy holidays from Google!' will appear.   Last year, Google featured a colourful neon design doodle with images of a snowflake, Santa Claus, bell, snowman, candle and a gift box on a black background thus wishing its users "happy holidays".   Google's first holiday doodle, dating back to year 1999, featured a snowman. The snowman made up for the first "O" of the Google logo, and as users scroll

Carlos Finlay's Google doodle on December 3. Photograph: Google Google's latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Carlos Finlay, the Cuban physician and scientist who theorised that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes. Of French and Scottish descent, Finlay was born in 1833 in Puerto Príncipe, now the Cuban city of Camagüey, and studied at Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He finished his studies in Havana and Paris before settling in Cuba to open a medical practice. Finlay was appointed by the Cuban government in 1879 to work with a North American commission studying the causes of yellow fever, and two years later was sent as the Cuban delegate to the fifth International Sanitary Conference in Washington DC. At the conference, he urged the study of yellow fever vectors and later stated that the carrier was the mosquito Culex fasciatus, now known as Aedes aegypti.

A class 10 student from Pune was awarded in Delhi Tuesday for designing the doodle for Google India, which has gone live on the Google home page in India Thursda to mark Children's Day.Doodles are the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and lives of famous artists and scientists. The doodle titled "Sky's the limit for Indian women" has been designed by Gayatri Ketharaman for the fifth edition of Doodle4Google competition with the theme celebrating Indian women. "Each letter of the doodle depicts the trait of Indian women. She is graceful and elegant, adept at balancing work and home. She is a go-getter and also personifies motherhood," said Gayatri Ketharaman, a student of Bishop's co-education school in Pune. The winner was selected from among 12 finalists chosen from different parts of the country by the national jury comprising actress Kirron Kher and politi

Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday is being celebrated by Google through an interactive doodle. Born on 8 November 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach was a Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for inventing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test. The inkblot test - or the Rorschach test - is a psychological test using which a person's interpretations of inkblots are recorded and assessed through psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. The test is used by psychologists to analyse a person's personality traits and emotional functioning. It's also used for detecting underlying thought disorders, especially when individuals are hesitant to talk about their thinking processes openly. Friday's interactive Google doodle honouring Hermann Rorschach features different inkblot patterns that can be browsed by clicking on them or on the navigation array keys. The doodle also features a 'Share what you see butt

CV Raman's 125th birth anniversary has been marked by Google with a doodle in his honour. One of India's most prolific scientists, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1930 for discovering that when light passes through a transparent material, some part of the deflected light changes in wavelength. The phenomenon was part of a theory that was named Raman effect, after the physicist himself. Thursday's Google doodle features a postage stamp like graphic with Sir CV Raman's head shot along with the diagram of the apparatus demonstrating the Raman effect, all somehow also looking like the alphabets of the Google logo. CV Raman was born in Thiruvanaikaval, Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, in British India to R. Chandrasekhara Iyer and Parvati Ammal on 7 November 1888. He passed his Bachelors degree in 1904 he passed securing first place and bagged a gold medal in physics. He got his Masters degree with the highest distinctions in 1907.

Google wants to have some Halloween fun with a new interactive doodle which featured on the Google search page on Thursday, October 31. The Google doodle features a witch flipping through pages of a book about witchcraft. The witch then starts brewing a potion and four interactive buttons with images of a bone, skull, a glass bottle and an apple appear. Adding a combination of any two ingredients by clicking on them results in appearance of different Halloween related animated visuals appearing including pumpkins, white ghost spirits, slides and coffins with mummies, among others. The visuals are also accompanied by a spooky sound. In addition to the interactive doodle, Google has also added quirky easter eggs for search terms like 'witch','ghost', 'evil' 'robot', 'skeleton', and 'grim reaper' among others. On searching for these terms Google offers fun light-hearted trivia on the

Google has created a ‘doodle’ to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the world’s first parachute jump. The doodle is based on Andre-Jacque Garnerin’s daring leap on October 22 1797 at Parc Monceau in Paris, which saw the then 28-year-old leap from a balloon using a seven-metre silk parachute that resembled an umbrella. Once Garnerin’s balloon reached a height of approximately 3,000 feet, the Parisian daredevil severed the rope that attached it to his basket, automatically opening the parachute. This left Garnerin plummeting towards the earth still inside the container, with just the attached silk parachute in place to decrease the speed of its fall. Although the basket lurched violently during the descent and suffered a violent landing, Garnerin somehow emerged totally uninjured. Following the jump, Garnerin was granted the title Official Aeronaut of France and he went on to become a well-known international figure. He and his wife Jeanne Genevieve Labross

Google celebrated September 7 as its birthday till 2005. In 2005 Google changed the date to September 27 to make it coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that the search engine was indexing. Google's date confusion also extends to its date of incorporation. Google for quite some time on its corporate history page mentioned September 7, 1998 as its date of incorporation but that date too has now inexplicably changed to September 4. For its 15th birthday, Google has posted an interactive version of the pinata, a popular Mexican birthday party game. The purpose of the game is to hit the pinata (a decorated container usually made of paper or cloth and filled with candy or toys) and extract as many toffees as possible. A user gets 10 chances to strike the piñata with a stick controlled by the spacebar on a computer keyboard or by the mouse and by swiping on a touchscreen mobile device.   Ref : http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-celebrates-i

Leon Foucault's 194th birthday has been marked a Google doodle. Foucault was a French physicist. The interactive Google doodle showcases the Foucault Pendulum, a device which was invented by Foucault to demonstrate the effect of earth's rotation. The doodle features two toggles for time and the position on the earth. Different combinations make the pendulum knock down pins placed at at different positions. The Foucault pendulum, invented in 1851, was one of the first simple experimental proofs of earth's rotation. The original pendulum was first showcased in the Meridian of the Paris Observatory, with a 28kg brass-coated lead bob and a 67-metre long wire being hung from the dome of the Pantheon. The pendulum completed a full circle every 32.7 hours, rotating clockwise at 11 degrees every hour. Leon Foucault was born on September 18, 1819 to a publisher, in Paris. He started studying medicine but left due to his fear of blood. In his initial years he investigated subj

Subbulakshmi was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna. Google dedicated a doodle to MS Subbulakshmi on its India homepage to mark the renowned Carnatic vocalist's 97th birthday on Monday. The doodle features the singer holding a tanpura with her trademark red and black bindis prominent on her forehead. The letters of the word Google have been portrayed by a tabla, mridangam and ghatam. Subbulakshmi was born in Madurai to veena player Shanmukavadiver Ammal and Subramania Iyer, she started learning Carnatic music at an early age and trained under the tutelage of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer. She also learnt Hindustani music under Pandit Narayanrao Vyas. The musical genius gave her first public performance at the age of 13 at the prestigious Madras Music Academy. Subbulakshmi was the first mus

New Delhi: Celebrating the 187th birthday of the English cricketer John Wisden , Google posted a doodle on its homepage. The doodle features John Wisden playing cricket. The letter L in the doodle has been replaced with a cricket pitch. Born on September 5 1826, John Wisden played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He is widely known for launching the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864. It happened the year after he retired from first-class cricket. John Wisden was said to be the best all-rounder of his days. People used to call him by the name "The Little Wonder". Wisden died of cancer in 1884. He was 57. John Wisden is widely known for launching the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864. Ref : http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-celebrates-john-wisdens-187th-birthday/419659-11.html

Claud Debussy's birthday is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle. French music composer Debussy is best remembered as one of the most prolific figures associated with impressionist music. Google's animated doodle presents a moonlit riverside scene set to the tunes of Clair de lune (3rd movement from Suite bergamasque) or Moonlight, one of Debussy's best music pieces. The moonlight riverside scene features a star studded sky, flickering streets lights and chimney smoke rising to the tunes of the piece, in addition to a windmill, boats, cycles, cars and balloons. The scene moves forward to depict rain falling on the river and concludes with two different boats crossing paths and the rowers sharing a red coloured umbrella. Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in France on 22 August 1862. He started taking piano lessons in Cannes at the age of seven, where he had moved with his mother during the Franco-Prussian war. Debuss

Independence Day India 2013 marked by a Google doodle Independence Day India is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle, on the occasion of India's 67th Independence Day. The doodle depicts a tricolour ribbon, in the colours of the Indian flag - saffron, white and green. 15th August is celebrated as Independence Day across India to mark the day that the country declared its independence from the British rule, sixty-six years ago. On the eve of Indian independence in 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his famous Tryst with Destiny speech to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament. Here are its opening lines. Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes b

Rosalind Franklin, best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix, is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle on the occasion of her 93rd birthday. Franklin was born in Notting Hill, London on 25th July 1920. Her father was Ellis Arthur Franklin, a London merchant banker, and her mother was Muriel Frances Waley. Rosalind was the second child of the family of five children. From early childhood, Franklin showed exceptional scholastic abilities and it was no surprise when she went up to Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1938 and studied chemistry within the Natural Sciences Tripos. After finishing her eduction, she met  the requirements of the National Service Act by working as an Assistant Research Officer at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (BCURA).  Her work with BCURA became the basis of her thesis The physical chemistry of solid organic collo

Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th birthday is being celebrated by Google through a doodle featuring his self portrait. The self portrait or 'Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar' was made by Rembrandt in 1659. It is an oil on canvas painting and a celebrated work of the painter. The painting has been preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (US) since 1937, where it's part of the Andrew W. Mellon Collection.  Rembrandt van Rijn is known as one of the greatest painters in Europe and Dutch Republic (Netherlands). The period when he contributed to art, is known as the Dutch Golden age which was known for its cultural achievements. Art connoisseurs of the 20th century claimed that Rembrandt had made more than 600 paintings, about 400 etchings and 2,000 drawings, though modern day findings under Rembrandt Research Project mentions that he had done about 300 paintings. Among these, 40 paintings are said to be self-portraits. His work runs

Google is celebrating legendary architect Antoni Gaudi's 161st birthday with a doodle showcasing some of his work. The doodle features six of his renowned works including Casa Batlo and Casa Mila in a miniature collage. Known as the father of modern Catalan architecture, Antoni Gaudi was born on June 25, 1852 in Reus, part of Catalonia in Spain. He grew up in the same region and was enrolled in Piarists school, following which he worked as an apprentice in a textile mill. He went to Barcelona to study teaching at Convent del Carmel. Gaudi then studied architecture at the Llotja School and the Barcelona Higher School of Architecture, and graduated in 1878. He also completed his compulsory military service. He also pursued a job as a draftsman to finance his education. Gaudi started his career by designing lampposts for the Placa Reial in Barcelona,  Girossi newsstands, and the Cooperativa Obrera Mataronense building, though he came into the lime

German scientist Julius Richard Petri's 161st birth anniversary has inspired to Google to dedicate an interactive doodle showcasing his invention, the petri dish, in full action. The interactive doodle features coloured petri dishes replacing the Google logo complete with the play button. After pressing the play button, a hand appears with a swab applying a solution on each of the dishes followed by the appearance of bacteria on each one of them. When you hover the mouse pointer on the dishes, they show the origin of the bacteria. The dishes show bacteria present in worn socks, door knob, keyboard, pet dog, plant, and a wet sponge complete with animated images. Julius Richard Petri was born on May 31, 1853 in Barmen (German Confederation). He studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Academy for Military Physicians and got his medical degree in 1876. Petri further pursued his studies at the Charite Hospital in Berlin and served as a military physician till 1882, becoming a res