Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media
Visitors to the Google homepage on April 29th 2009 were met with “–. — — –. .-.. .” instead of the Google logo. The humorous doodle was a celebration of what would have been the 218th birthday of Samuel Morse. The doodle was written in Morse code, a method of transmitting information using a series […]
On July 7th 2009 a doodle appeared on the Google homepage celebrating the 126th anniversary of the publication of Pinocchio. The doodle, which can still be viewed by clicking here, had a carpenter’s workshop theme. In the doodle the letters of the Google logo were comprised as follows, the first “G” of the logo was […]
Google celebrated the 50th birthday of NASA, or the National Aeronautics Space Administration, with a dedicated doodle on July 29th 2008. The doodle, which only appeared on the search engines homepage in the USA, can still be viewed by clicking here. By modern doodle standards the NASA doodle is relatively basic. The background of the […]
On April 14th 2005 the Google logo on the search engine’s homepage was replaced by a doodle celebrating what would have been the 553rd birthday of inventor, artists and scientist Leonardo da Vinci. In the doodle, the letters of the Google logo were depicted in the style of da Vinci’s journals. The colour red was […]
January 20th 2011 saw the Google homepage taken over by a doodle celebrating the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. The doodle was created by doodler Mike Dutton. Surprisingly, perhaps, due to the popularity of Kennedy and the impact he had on the globe, his doodle only appeared on the search […]
Thursday March 24th 2011 saw the Google homepage pay doodle based tribute to one of the greatest illusionists the world has ever seen, Harry Houdini. The doodle, which appeared on the search engine’s homepage globally, celebrated what would have been Houdini’s 137th birthday. The dedicated doodle, which can still be viewed by clicking here, featured […]
The countries of Latin America continent share a common cultural and linguistic history. However each of these countries have their own, very different pre-colonial cultures and traditions, the combination of these two factors has had a distinct effect in shaping them into the countries they are today. So what social media networks are popular in […]
On April 24th 2012 the Google homepage was taken over by a doodle celebrating what would have been the 132nd birthday of Gideon Sundback, the inventor of the zipper. The doodle featured an interactive zipper down the middle of the logo. Users were able pull the zipper up and down, the doodle and associated blog […]
On Thursday 15th August 2013 the Google homepage was taken over by a doodle celebrating what would have been the 155th birthday of children’s author Edith Nesbit. In the doodle, the search engine’s logo was depicted through a collection of deep green coloured foliage which comprised each of the six letters of the Google logo. […]
The cup of homelessness runneth over, even in the first world. In 2015, there were just under 30,000 homeless applications filed in England alone. Of those filed, just 49% were approved for assistance. And those numbers are not even an accurate representation of the homelessness problem, as it is estimated that up to 62% of […]