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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...