Up on the Housetop

The Wall Street Journal reported that although doodles appear throughout the year to commemorate holidays, pop-culture touchstones, civic milestones and scientific achievements, this particular doodle will be Google’s most ambitious one yet, remaining on their site for 2 1/2 days.

The first group of images consist of Acropolis, Buch de Noel and St. Basil’s Cathedral. The second: Mt. Fuji, Great Wall of China, pierogi and Indian dance styles. The third group has images of the Sydney harbor, Sahara desert, Oud and Chili Pepper. The fifth consists of Chilean vineyards, Venice gondolas Nepal and African kanga. Google's Thursday homepage doodle includes a collection of holiday scenes created by the company's "chief doodler," Michael Lopez.

Lopez told the Wall Street Journal that it took about 250 hours to create the doodles. Visitors to Google.com can view the doodles, which went live at 9am today, for 2.5 days.


Prior to that, John Lennon's would-be 70th birthday was celebrated with a video doodle set to the song "Imagine."

The little logos which compose the Christmas Google Doodle continue with chili pepper, the Sydney Harbour, the Venice gondolas, Nepal, the Chilean vineyards, African kanga which is a really nice colored garment, Henna lamp, and the very popular which is a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby back in 1864.

Do you like today’s Google Doodle which, by the way, can be seen above?