By now, most Google users are accustomed to seeing Google
celebrate the birthdays of famous artists, scientists, and holidays or events.
Today, Google is celebrating its own birthday, as the search engine officially
turns 14 years old. This year’s birthday Doodle is quite different than
previous entries. Yes, indeed it’s animated, which is a first for a birthday
logo. But the issue comes at the end of the animation.
As you arrive on Google’s homepage, you see a rectangular
chocolate cake bearing Google’s name, along with 14 candles. Slowly, the
chocolate cake is “eaten” away and the candles are compiled at the bottom of
the screen, and what’s left is a tray spelling out Google’s letters in the
usual combo of colors: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red.
Except, there are a few pieces of the chocolate cake
remaining on the tray and what results is an unintentional Rorschach test.
Because those pieces of chocolate cake happen to spell out, more visibly, what
appears to be “Poople” In brown.
Earlier, when Google entered its teenage, it marked its 13th
birthday with a doodle that depicted the company logo with party hats placed on
each letter of its logo and a cake with balloons and gifts around. The Internet giant Google was found by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin in September 1998.
Here’s a look back at Google birthday Doodles through the
years:
Classified The Series is a five-episode web series directed by Ali
Mostafa and produced by Boomtown Productions and Filmworks. Classified series
is produced by Land Rover to celebrate the launch of the Range Rover Evoque
into the Middle East. Directed by Emirati film maker Ali F. Mostafa, the online
series follows a group of three friends through a number of action-packed
scrapes and adventures around the region.
In a bold move away from traditional product placement, Land
Rover worked with Ali Mostafa to create a
thrilling and exciting online film series in which the car is featured as a
main character, with an integral role in the overall storyline. Classified The Series is a dramatic thriller miniseries,
produced with the same standards of a feature film, including suspense, action,
drama as well as elements of humour.
Ali Mostafa has done an excellent job
portraying the Range Rover Evoque as an integral part of the story. Cruising
through the sandy dunes of the UAE deserts or the busy streets of Manama, the
Evoque looks like a brilliant companion for adventure. Naturally,
the 2012 Range Rover Evoque is the real star of the show as it takes on terrain
that leaves other vehicles in the dust. You get to see a lot of the Evoque’s
features in action, including the Surround Camera system, the Evoque’s off-road
abilities, puddle lights, navigation system, and the glass panel roof.
Classified The Series will be your kind of thing if you like
your long format commercials to have a flair for intrigue, a good amount of
action, a few car chases, and a bit of humor.
The film is half in English and half in Arabic, with the actors
switching between the two languages on the fly. Both languages are subtitled as
appropriate, and after a couple of minutes this convention slips into the
background and you don’t really notice it if you mange to find yourself wrapped
up in the story. Speaking of, we thought the story is interesting, the script was
written, the production values were top-notch, and the acting wasn’t bad.
Google doodles are fun, more so when they are interactive
such as Saturday's 'Star Trek: The Original Series' doodle, posted to
commemorate the 46th anniversary of the cult science fiction television series
that aired on NBC in the US from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969. It appears that the 'Star Trek: The Original Series' doodle
is best experienced on Google's Web browser - Chrome. Is Google using its
popular home page doodles to promote its browser or is it only showcasing the
abilities of Chrome in taking advantage of modern Web technologies?
The interactive doodle that appears on the Google home page
on Saturday shows the characters of the cult science fiction television series
that aired on NBC in the US from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969 as letters
of the Google logo and also lets you participate a little interactive tale, but
there are no points to earn though. The letter 'G' in the Google logo is Mr Spock, perhaps the
most memorable character from the series. The first 'O' plays the character of
Nyota Uhura and the second that of James T Kirk, the commanding officer of the
USS Enterprise. The letter 'L' seems to resemble Hikaru Sulu.The doodle opens in the bridge of the Starship Enterprise
and then the second 'O' and the 'E' go out of the red door to the transporter
room and the transporter beams them to an unfriendly planet where they are
challenged by an alien.
On defeating the enemy they return to the Enterprise.
All this doesn't happen on its own, but you need to click your way through the
doodle to make the action happen. The iconic instrumental Theme from Star Trek by Alexander
Courage continuously plays in the background. The doodle ends in classic Star
Trek style with the USS Enterprise zipping past in the backdrop of stars and
the Google letters appear in yellow. The first doodle that Google posted to
commemorate a television programme was on September 30, 2010 for the 50th
Anniversary of the popular animated series The Flintstones.
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As you arrive on Google’s homepage, you see a rectangular
chocolate cake bearing Google’s name, along with 14 candles. Slowly, the
chocolate cake is “eaten” away and the candles are compiled at the bottom of
the screen, and what’s left is a tray spelling out Google’s letters in the
usual combo of colors: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red.
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