GOOGLE DOODLE

20 Popular Google Doodle Games You Can Still Play

There’s a Google Doodle game for practically everything, from garden gnomes and ‘Doctor Who’ to magic cats and boba.

A photograph of Alexandre Dumas by Nadar, circa 1855.

Google Pays Tribute to Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo With Doodle

Alexandre Dumas’s action-packed adventure novel is definitely a classic, but the inspiration behind it isn’t very well-known.

Georgia Teen Wins Doodle for Google Contest With a Tribute to Her Mom

Arantza Peña Popo's Google Doodle, titled "Once you get it, give it back," was announced the winner of 2019's Doodle for Google contest by Jimmy Fallon on August 12.

5 Fast Facts About Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa, the subject of May 1's Google Doodle, overcame adversity and changed the art world with her wire sculpture techniques.

What to Know About Hedwig Kohn, the Subject of Today's Google Doodle

Hedwig Kohn, who would have celebrated her 132nd birthday on April 5, was a pioneering physicist who became one of the first women certified to teach physics at a German university.

5 Fast Facts About Hugh Masekela

As a 17-year-old boy in South Africa, Hugh Masekela received a trumpet that had been donated by a jazz musician in America. That musician was Louis Armstrong.

Google Creates First AI Doodle for Bach’s Birthday

The Doodle lets you create your own Bach-inspired harmonies—with a little help from a machine learning model that was fed 306 Bach harmonies.

How Seiichi Miyake and Tactile Paving Changed the World for Visually Impaired People

Seiichi Miyake invented tactile paving for his visually impaired friend in 1965. Today, the raised bumps are ubiquitous in cities around the world.

Statue of Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge in Germany.

7 Facts About Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, the subject of a a new Google doodle, is the German chemist who identified caffeine.

18 Timeless Will Rogers Quotes

William Penn Adair Rogers ranks among the finest performers, comedians, and social commentators in American history.

Today's Google Doodle Honors Civil Rights Hero Fred Korematsu

The Japanese-American activist Fred Korematsu would have been 98 on January 30, 2019. His case against Japanese-American internment during World War II made it all the way to the Supreme Court.