New Year’s Day 2018 celebrated by Google Doodle – how is the search engine marking January 1?
A series of designs featuring penguins and parrots have been released by the search giant to celebrate the festive season
NEW Year’s Day is finally upon us, with people across the globe ringing in 2018.
With the holiday spirit spreading across the world, Google has been getting in on the act – here’s how they’ve been marking the festive season.
How is Google marking Christmas and New Year celebrations in 2017?
Google has been marking the Christmas and New Year period with a festive series of Doodles, which began on Monday, December 18.
Interactive, animated images have featured penguins and parrots arranging to spend their holidays together.
In the first of the cartoon-style designs, displayed on the search engine’s homepage across much of the world, the penguins were seen packing their suitcases for a trip to see their parrot pals.
A series of boxes marked 25, 31 and 1 in another image revealed how the follow-up Doodles would appear on some of the standout dates in the Christmas holiday period.
The Christmas Day doodle showed the penguins meeting with their parrot friends and exchanging gifts for the festive day.
For New Year’s Eve, the doodle showed the penguins celebrating the countdown to 2018 by running around with sparklers on a beach with a cityscape in the background.
And on January 1, we saw them heralding the new year by gazing towards the horizon in the latest uplifting theme.
Teasing their festive concept, Google said: “The festive season is here and this pair of slippery-footed siblings are excited to spend time with their warm-weather relatives!
“Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks to see what kind of fun this feathery family has in store.”
What is a Google Doodle?
In 1998, the search engine founders Larry and Sergey drew a stick figure behind the second ‘o’ of Google as a message to that they were out of office at the Burning Man festival and with that, Google Doodles were born.
The company decided that they should decorate the logo to mark cultural moments and it soon became clear that users really enjoyed the change to the Google homepage.