New Year's Eve 2013: Google bids goodbye with an animated doodle

Keeping up with its tradition of coming out with doodles to mark important days, Google, on Tuesday, displayed an animatedNew Year's Eve 2013 doodle on its homepage to bid adieu to the year. It is the last Google doodle for the year 2013.

Today's attractive doodle features the numbers 2,0,1 and 3 partying on a multi-coloured dance floor. The number 4 is also depicted in the doodle, which is interpreted as waiting along the sides to replace 3. In the background, two speakers are seen playing music uniformly.

Additionally, the Google logo is presented in a colourful way with a disco ball that represents the letter 'O'. And if you move the cursor on the doodle then a message 'Happy New Year!' will appear.

Just below the search bar, the search engine displays a caption that reads 'What did the world search for this year? Remember the moments of 2013'. And on clicking the given link, users are redirected to the Google Zeitgeist 2013 page that highlights some of the major and significant events of the year in a 1.31-minute video.

The Times of India also brings you the Top News of the Year 2013 even as we look ahead for a new beginning.

more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/New-Years-Eve-2013-Google-bids-goodbye-with-an-animated-doodle/articleshow/28172714.cms

Google India celebrates Children's Day with Pune student's winning entry doodle celebrating Indian women

November 14 is celebrated as Children's Day in India.

The Google doodle

The Google India homepage on Thursday, November 14, 2013 shows Google written with characters that well and truly are Indian.

The doodle is titled 'Sky's the limit for Indian women' and has been designed by Gayatri Ketharaman from Pune for the fifth edition of Doodle 4 Google competition. The theme this year was celebrating Indian women.

Ketharaman, a 10th standard student from Bishop's co-education school, Pune was selected from among 12 finalists chosen from different parts of India by the national jury which included actress Kirron Kher and political cartoonist Ajit Ninan.

Today's doodle has G written with a young girl character who is seen leaping in the air with a dupatta and a musical instrument behind her indicating that she is dancing. The two Os are written with a Re 1 coin that has a graduation cap on it while the other O is balance by a house on a beam balance. The other G shows a rocket headed to space, the Mars Mission comes to mind as do Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams, Indian women who went to space. L is created by an athlete running on track which is formed by the dupatta. And E is created by a policeman's hat.

The doodle is well intricate with India and all she aims to be as a country as well as the hopes and aspirations of citizens especially young women. A creative amalgamation of characters and Indianness makes the doodle very relatable and the message comes out clearly.

The Indian woman in her different roles with elegance, gait as she plays her many roles balancing her professional and personal life with excellence.

November 14 is India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday and in the country Children's Day is celebrated to commemorate his great love for children.

Google4Doodle is a competition that happens every year. Google invites students from standard 1 to 10 to share their creativity by doodling the Google logo. Google 4 Doodle 2013 is the fifth year of the competition in India.

More: http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-google-india-celebrates-children-s-day-with-pune-student-s-winning-entry-doodle-celebrating-indian-women-1918833

Pune girl’s doodle design wins Google contest

Gayatri Ketharaman is "floating in the air" — that's how she describes how she is feeling right now. And why won't she. The Class X student of Bishop's Co-Ed School, Kalyani Nagar, was Tuesday declared the national winner of Google India's Doodle4Google competition.

The chosen one from among the 12 finalists, Ketharaman was felicitated by Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India, in New Delhi.

The fifth edition of the doodle design competition received 1.5 lakh entries from more than 1,500 schools across 100 cities. The theme for this year's competition was 'Celebrating Indian Women'.

Ketharaman's doodle titled Sky's The Limit for Indian Women will go live on the Google (India) homepage on November 14, the Children's Day. It was judged on the basis of artistic merit, creativity and expression of the theme by a jury that comprised actor Kirron Kher among others.

"Each letter in my doodle depicts a trait of the Indian woman that makes her special. 'G' shows her gracefulness, while the two 'O's show how adept she is at balancing work and home. The next 'G' depicts her as a go-getter, yet she is a mother at heart as shown in the letter 'L'. The final alphabet 'E' shows that even in the face of adversity, she is courageous," Ketharaman said from Delhi.

Asked how did she come up with the concept, Ketharaman said she had been brainstorming for days. "When some concrete ideas began to form, I discussed them with my mother and a cousin. I had many ideas to work on but one of the thoughts that was on my mind was how the common Indian woman is an achiever because she does so much every day," she said, adding that her mother Sumati and some of her teachers were a big inspiration to her.

Passionate about art, Ketharaman said she had participated in the doodle design competition a few times earlier too. "I was also among the finalists once. This time though I won it! I am definitely thrilled but I wasn't really expecting it. This doodle is special for my parents and school too, and this victory is in a way dedicated to them for their contribution to my life," she said.

Sharing the excitement, her mother said: "I am certain that all the parents who had come to the awards ceremony would have desired to be in our place. This time we were the lucky ones. But it is not just the winning, the experience too is really wonderful," she said, adding that they had always encouraged their daughter because they knew she had the talent.

More: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pune-girl-s-doodle-design-wins-google-contest/1194279/0

Look closely at Google’s Rorschach doodle: What do you see?

If one were to analyse Google today, you would infer that it is clever, social, has a great sense of humour and is in tune with Internet memes. Today’s Google Doodle, which pays homage to Hermann Rorschach, shows a pair of hands (presumably yours) holding a card with an ink blot on it, while a serious looking man on the other hand stares at you a tad glumly. You are expected to figure out what the ink blot looks like to you, and then, if you wish, share your observation on either Google Plus, Twitter or Facebook. Even if you have never heard about Hermann Rorschach, chances are you know about his ink blot test. The one where you stare at an ink blot and tell someone what you think it looks like.

 If you see for example, two fairies flitting around it may signify that you are of an ‘innocent’ nature or that you see ‘charm’ in everything. (Or that you’re delusional) Google’s ink blots are varied, and as usual, it has thrown in its customary easter egg. In between perfectly ordinary looking ink blots you will suddenly find two dinosaurs playing with a football, or a cat with a butterfly hovering over its head. Your social networking feeds are likely to be flooded with people’s take on the ink blots. Who knows? Perhaps you’ll find out a lot more about their personalities by the end of the day. (Cue sinister music) The test is used by psychologists to analyse a person’s personality traits and emotional functioning. It’s also used for detecting underlying thought disorders, especially when individuals are hesitant to talk about their thinking processes openly. You see the ink blot test used widely in movies most often involving grave psychologists who show them to deranged prisoners in fancy looking institutes.

 In Alan Moore’s Watchmen, one of the main characters calls himself Rorschach and wears a mask – which is really a white cloth covered in ink blots. According to Wikipedia, Hermann Rorschach was known to his school friends as Klecks, or “inkblot” since he enjoyed klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot “pictures”. Unlike his classmates, however, Rorschach went on to make inkblots his life’s work. Later, it seems, the excitement in intellectual circles over psychoanalysis constantly reminded Rorschach of his childhood inkblots. Wondering why different people often saw entirely different things in the same inkblots, he began, while still a medical student, showing inkblots to schoolchildren and analyzing their responses. in 1921 he wrote his book Psychodiagnostik, which was to form the basis of the inkblot test. The inkblots were an overnight success due to the seemingly miraculous behaviour readings they provided. However, they were considered scientifically worthless by several psychologists.

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Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday marked by interactive inkblot Google doodle

ann Rorschach's 129th birthday is being celebrated by Google through an interactive doodle.

Born on 8 November 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach was a Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for inventing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test.

The inkblot test - or the Rorschach test - is a psychological test using which a person's interpretations of inkblots are recorded and assessed through psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. The test is used by psychologists to analyse a person's personality traits and emotional functioning. It's also used for detecting underlying thought disorders, especially when individuals are hesitant to talk about their thinking processes openly.

Friday's interactive Google doodle honouring Hermann Rorschach features different inkblot patterns that can be browsed by clicking on them or on the navigation array keys. The doodle also features a 'Share what you see button' that allows you to share your interpretation of the inkblot on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. The doodle also features a sketch of Hermann Rorschach sitting and making notes.

Hermann Rorschach was fond of klecksography, the art of making inkblots since his school days. He later studied under the guidance of eminent psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler. He first started psychoanalysis through inkblots by analysing response of school children to inkblots. Rorschach wrote a book called by the name of Psychodiagnostik in 1921, which is said to be the basis of the inkblot test. He studied and researched 300 mental patients and 100 control subjects for the book.

It is said that after experimenting with several hundred inkblots, Hermann Rorschach shortlisted a set of ten for their diagnostic value.

Rorschach died of peritonitis, which was likely due to a ruptured appendix, on April 1, 1922 at a young age of 37, just an year after writing Psychodiagnostik.

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CV Raman's 125th birthday: Google doodles the Raman effect

November 7, 2013 is the 125th birth anniversary of one of India's most prominent scientists CV Raman and Google has highlighted on its India home page the work for which the physicist won a Nobel. The postage-stamp-like Google doodle celebrating CV Raman's birthday has Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman's (his full name) face appearing behind the letter G and on the adjacent stamp to the right the other letters in the Google logo demonstrate the Raman effect. 

CV Raman was born on November 7, 1888 in Trichinopoly (now Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu). After passing out of Presidency College, Madras with a master's degree in physics in 1907 Raman joined government service as an accountant and in 1917 became a professor of physics at the University of Calcutta. CV Raman discovered the phenomenon now called Raman scattering that is the result of the Raman effect. It was in 1928 that he discovered the phenomenon now called Raman scattering that is the result of the Raman effect. 

Google doodles a calculator for the human computer Definition of Raman effect on Encyclopedia Britinnica: When a beam of light traverses a dust-free, transparent sample of a chemical compound, a small fraction of the light emerges in directions other than that of the incident (incoming) beam. Most of this scattered light is of unchanged wavelength. A small part, however, has wavelengths different from that of the incident light; its presence is a result of the Raman effect. Raman was knighted by the British monarch in 1929. 

He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930, becoming the second Indian Nobel laureates after Rabindranath Tagore. In 1933 CV Raman joined the Indian Institute of Science, at Bangalore and headed of the department of physics. He was named director of the Raman Research Institute in 1947. 

After India's Independence CV Raman was instrumental in setting up of other prominent Indian research institutes. CV Raman died on November 21, 1970 in Bangalore.

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'குறை ஒன்றும் இல்லை'... எம்.எஸ்.ஸுக்கு கெளரவம் தந்த கூகுள் டூடில்!

மறைந்த கர்நாடக இசை மேதை பாரதரத்னா இசைக் குயில் எம்.எஸ்.சுப்புலட்சுமியின் 97வது பிறந்த நாளையொட்டி கூகுள் டூடில் மூலம் கெளரவம் கொடுத்துள்ளது கூகுள் நிறுவனம்.

தம்புராவைக் கையில் பிடித்தபடி எம்.எஸ். அமர்ந்திருக்கும் படம் கூடவே தபலா, மிருதங்கம், கடம் ஆகியவையும் இடம் பெற்றுள்ளன இந்த டூடில் படத்தில். எம்.எஸ்.ஸின் காந்தர்வக் குரல் மட்டும்தான் இந்த படத்தில் மிஸ்ஸிங்... பார்க்கவே படு ரம்யமாக இருக்கிறது இந்த டூடில்.

 Holding a tanpura and her trademark red and black bindis prominent on her forehead and accompanied by a tabla, mridangam and ghatam, only the melodious voice of MS Subbulakshmi appears is missing from the doodle on the Google home page celebrating the renowned Carnatic vocalist's and Bharat Ratna recipient's 97th birth anniversary. 

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