Today’s Google doodle celebrates the British writer, Samuel Johnson, on his 308th birthday. A poet, essayist, biographer and critic, Johnson was a prolific writer, but he is often best known for his contribution as a lexicographer. Johnson published “Dictionary of the English Language” in 1775, after nine years spent putting it together. His dictionary served […]
Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the famous Russian baritone singer Eduard Khil, on what would have been the crooner’s 83rd birthday. To celebrate Khil, Google took artistic direction from its own archives and recreated a YouTube video of the performer that went viral eight years ago. “A 1976 TV performance of ‘I Am Glad
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Google has traded out its usual logo with a doodle to mark the Labor Day holiday. The Google doodlers behind today’s doodle took their lead from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals produced during the 1930s. Created in 1935, the historic WPA was a federal program providing economic relief for US citizens suffering during the
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For the first time in nearly a century, the United States will have front row seats to a total solar eclipse today as the moon passes between the sun and the earth. To mark the occasion, Google has traded out the logo on its home page with an animated doodle that leads to a search
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I said a hip hop, hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop. Those were the very first Hip Hop lyrics I remember hearing from my mom’s eight-track tape deck back in the late ’70s. It turns out Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” came six years after Hip Hop music
Today’s Google doodle is a tribute to Dolores del Río on what would have been the actress’s 112th birthday. Born in Mexico, Del Río had an acting career that reached iconic status during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She is credited with being the first Latin American actress to become a major Hollywood film
At a time when companies have growing access to consumer data from an increasing number of sources, privacy is more important than ever. But it’s also important for privacy advocates to understand what’s going on before they formally complain to regulatory bodies. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a complaint with the FTC
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Today’s featured Google Doodle on the US home page honors the Silent Parade of 1917 on its 100th anniversary. The Silent Parade of 1917 included approximately 10,000 African Americans marching down Fifth Avenue in New York City in response to the East St. Louis Riots of 1917. It was the first mass protest of lynching
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Today’s Google doodle marks what would have been Marshall McLuhan’s 106th birthday. A Canadian philosopher, professor and author, McLuhan was an astute media theorist with a prescient vision of how technology would continue to shape our world. In 1962, McLuhan published “The Gutenberg Galaxy” — a book that popularized the term “global village” and the
Today’s Google doodle marks the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2017, currently being played in England. The doodle doubles as a cricket-inspired video game with animated crickets playing against a team of snails. The game was first introduced last month to mark the men’s ICC Championships. Leading to a search for “Women’s Cricket World Cup 2017,”
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