10 Best Doodles of the Year 2011

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 27 December 2011, 00:47 IST
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Bangalore: Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s initiative to notify the users of a server crash during the Burning Man Festival of 1998 in the Nevada desert kick started a whole new genre of doodles. Google celebrates festivals, honors legends, and allows you to play around with physics through its doodles.

Here is a list of 10 most cherished Google-Doodles of year 2011 as listed PC-Mag.com

1. Google plays guitar for Les Paul’s 96th Birthday

Google celebrated Les Paul’s 96th birthday by means of its guitar doodle. Les Paul was a Guitarist and inventor who built his own guitar, and electric guitar out of his passion for stringed instruments, and in his search for the perfect sounding guitar. The interactive Guitar Doodle created by Kris Hom and Joey Hurst in June 2011 using JavaScript & Flash allowed users to record their own composition when they “strummed” the strings.

 

2. Shy  man “Mercury” as a Doodle

This featured Doodle was created in remembrance of   “Don’t stop me Now” Hero Queen Frontman Freddie Mercury and had a YouTube video on its Back end. Google Engineers took three long months to design the Doodle. Jim Beach who is the member of Mercury’s band has set up Mercury Phoenix Trust for the people who are affected by HIV positive.

 



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