In 1998, Google unveiled its first every special logo called a doodle. In 1999, Google celebrated the Christmas holiday time with a special doodle. But in 2001, the creative minds at Google started doing a series of special doodles to celebrate the holidays.
The first Google holiday season doodle in 1999 featured a snowy Google logo with a snowman making up the first "O”". Scrolling over the doodle and it revealed the message, "Seasons' Greetings with a Google Doodle."
Google continued sending out warm holiday wishes with a special holiday doodle in 2000. This year the doodle had ice skating penguins skating around the Google logo.
Google started having series of special Christmas time holiday doodles in 2001. Each day, Google would have a new Google doodle building off of the one the day before.
There were only four special holiday Google doodles in 2001. They featured three polar bears, a mamma bear (guess it could be a papa bear though) and two cub bears decorating the Google logo with Christmas tree lights.
Google added a fifth doodle to the holiday series in 2002. The holiday doodle series starts off in 2002 with a pile of wrapped Christmas presents. Then four friends; a penguin, a bear, a rabbit and a beaver pass out to each other the gifts and they then open the gifts to find the gift that was on their wish list.
The snowman from the original Google holiday doodle returns in the 2003 Google holiday series with another snowman friend. They find the Google logo buried in snow. The snowmen start digging out the Google logo when a snowplow comes through taking away the second "O". The snowmen then roll up a big snowball to make a new second "O".
The polar bears make another appearance in the 2004 Google holiday series. In this series of special holiday doodles, the polar bear make up a pile of snowballs. Instead of starting a snowball fight, the polar bears wash out the colors in the Google logo into the different snowballs. They then share the snow cones with their wilderness friends.
Who says a cat and a mouse cannot be friends? Maybe it was just the Christmas spirit, but they can be at least in the 2005 Google holiday series. A cat and mouse work together in this holiday doodle series on the Google logo. They try to plug it in, but the extension cord is too short. So the mouse gets busy and makes a mouse-powered generator. The mouse lights up the Google logo in bright glowing colors while running on a wheel.
Friends from down under are featured in the Google holiday series in 2006; a family of kangaroos make their appearance in the holiday doodles. In this doodle series, the daddy kangaroo and a joey knitting a sweater from the decorations on the Google logo. They give the sweater they knitted to the mamma kangaroo as a Christmas gift.
The 2007 Google holiday series doodles were yummy. First with a cannon and then with a crane, workers decorated the Google logo with a bow on one of the “Os” and the other "O" and the "E" painted to look like they were made out of candy cane.
A toymaker and a young boy make the Google logo out of toys and toy parts for 2008. This Google holiday series had a Norman Rockwell feeling to the Google doodles.
This year for the 2009 Google holiday series, Google is sending out warm holiday wishes with a different postcard each day. The doodle on the first day was of a warm tropical paradise with the palm tree covered in Christmas lights. Day two had a postcard with three snowmen in a winter wonderland.
As Google continues their special Christmas time holiday doodle series, it creates a following of people looking to see what Google comes up with for the next doodle. It is almost like a bunch of kids on Christmas morning looking to see what Santa has brought them. With Google's holiday doodles, they send their holiday wishes and lots of fun for kids of all ages.
Written by Denise Clay
For Huliq
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