10 favourite Google Doodles of 2011

Another year come and gone, another set of brilliant Google Doodles come and gone. Some of them were almost as iconic as the icons they celebrated. Here is our list of our top 10 favourite Google Doodles that were visible in India this year.

10. Jim Henson: September 24th 2011

For the Muppets

A lot of us grew up on the Muppets, and for those who didn’t, Cookie Monster and Big Bird are no strangers. Henson was the creator of the Muppet Show and Sesame Street. The Doodle celebrating him was interactive, letting you move each character representing the alphabets of “Google” with a hand beneath them. The characters would also do a few things randomly, for example, the red character making the first ‘o’ would have his glasses tossed in the air and the red monster making the ‘e’ would eat the character making the ‘l’. This Doodle celebrated Jim Henson’s would be 75th birthday.

9. Thomas Edison: February 11th, 2011

For luminosity

Google celebrated one of the greatest scientists on his 164th birthday. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was celebrated on the 11th of February, last year with a Doodle in motion. The Doodle featured machines, including a telegraph (the first ‘G’), which types out ‘G’ in Morse code and a light bulb, which brightened and dimmed.

8. Earth Day: April 22nd, 2011

For the planet

Google Doodled for Earth Day, a day when we’re supposed to think about our planet. The Doodle featured an interactive “cross-cultural garden”. The highlight of the Doogle might just be the penguin diving into the river. Or the fish that swims up the waterfall and gets caught by a bear. A fun Doodle for all the nature lovers.

7. Uncle Pai: September 17th, 2011

For Suppandi

Another back to childhood Doodle. Google celebrated the 82nd birthday of Indian cartoonist, Anant Pai on the 17th of September. The Doodle was a comic strip that was representative of  Uncle Pai’s artistic styling as seen in his work, the Amar Chitra Katha. His arguably most notable character was Suppandi who is visible in the Doodle on the cover of a comic book in the second panel. Pai passed away in February of 2011.

6. Total Lunar Eclipe: June 15th, 2011

For the moon

Google wanted the experience of the longest lunar eclipse in 11 years to be global. The company partnered up with Slooh to provide a live feed of the eclipse in the Doodle. Before and after the live feed, a video was embedded in the Doodle with the moon going through an eclipse. This Doodle was also the first Doodle that showed up worldwide at the same time, and did not wait till midnight in each country.