Doodles are the changes that are made to the Google logo in celebration of holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists who have helped shape history.
The idea started in 1998 when Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin placed a stick figure drawing behind the second 'o' in the word Google as a message to users that they were "out of the office" attending a music and art festival. From there the idea of decorating our logo to mark cultural moments was born.
After two years of playing around with the logo on special occasions, Page and Brin asked webmaster Dennis Hwang to create a doodle for Bastille Day in France. Soon after he was appointed the chief doodler, Google's doodles became more frequent occurrences on the home page.
