Google celebrates India’s first passenger train journey with Doodle

Google marked the 160th anniversary of the first passenger train journey in India with a doodle on its homepage. On April 16, 1853, the first commercial passenger train chugged out of Bori Bunder, in Bombay to Thane, covering a distance of 34 kilometres. The train was hauled by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan,took 400 invited passengers in 14 carriages on a 57 minute journey. Google doodle shows a steam…
Read more...Happy Halloween! Google Doodle

Google wished search engine users “Happy Halloween” today with an animated doodle. Halloween, also called All Hallows’ Eve, falls on the eve of All Saints’ Day. While it has religious significance for some Christians, nowadays, it is observed largely as a secular celebration. The Happy Halloween doodle is an interactive one. If the user clicks the first door a blue one-eyed octopus opens the door which also stands for the…
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London 2012 shot put Google Doodle

Today (August 03, 2012, Friday) Google is featuring “Shot Put” by showing the Doodle “London 2012 shot put“. This is the Eighth Doodle for the London 2012 Summer Olympics. The event is taking place from Friday 3 August – Sunday 12 August. Shot Put is a track and field event involving “putting” a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible.It is common to use the term “shot put” to refer…
Read more...London 2012 Table Tennis Google Doodle

Today (August 02, 2012, Thursday) Google is featuring “Table Tennis” by showing the Doodle “London 2012 Table Tennis“. This is the Seventh Doodle for the London 2012 Summer Olympics. The event is taking place from Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 8 August. Table Tennis joined the Olympic programme in 1988. Table Tennis is based on the same basic principles as Tennis, but it has a very different scoring system. Table…
Read more...Gideon Sundback celebrated in a Google doodle

Google’s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer. Gideon was born as Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundback on April 24, 1880 to a farmer in Smaland, the souther part of Sweden. Google’s letters appear to be stitched on, as if the home page has become a big virtual white shirt. Sundback was not only…
Read more...Google Shows an excellent animated Doodle for Earth Day

Today (April 22nd, 2012),Google is showing an excellent animated Doodle for celebrating 42st anniversary of Earth Day. The Doodle will appear as plants without any flowers and the animation makes flowers to appear step by step. In Google.com alone Google is showing these words below the search box ” Roses are red, violets are blue, for Earth Day this year, let’s all plant a few” . Earth Day is a day that…
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