Google doodle marks Earth Day 2022 with stark images of climate crisis
Time-lapse satellite images show glacial retreat at Mount Kilimanjaro, Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, deforestation in Germany and Greenland glacial melt
July 2018
The networker
More choice on privacy just means more chances to do what’s best for big tech
John Naughton
A study of how Facebook, Google and Microsoft have applied the EU’s new GDPR rules shows users are being manipulated
September 2017
How well do you know Samuel Johnson's dictionary? – quiz
As a popular search engine marks the great lexicographer’s birthday, it’s a good time for some defining questions. Can you get them right without Googling?
April 2017
Women's rights and gender equality
What has Esther Afua Ocloo done for women? Google knows
Google’s ‘doodle’ today celebrates the achievements of an entrepreneur from Ghana who helped to empower millions of women through business
February 2017
Carmen Miranda is celebrated with a Google doodle – in pictures
As the queen of the headdress is commemorated on the 108th anniversary of her birth, we look back at some of her best moments
June 2016
Silent but deadly!
Lotte Reiniger: animated film pioneer and standard-bearer for women
The story of the groundbreaking director behind today’s Google doodle and how her fairytale-inspired work made her one of the most important early women in the film industry
April 2016
From the Guardian archive
Hertha Marks Ayrton: Guardian obituary of pioneering scientist, published 1923
First modern Olympic Games marked by Google Doodle
March 2016
Environment blog
Spring Equinox Google Doodle: When does the season of rebirth really start?
Google’s celebrated the astronomical start of the season – the spring equinox – but in reality spring has been arriving weeks early for years
Across the universe
Caroline Herschel: Google pays tribute to German cataloguer of stars
Today’s Google doodle is dedicated to Caroline Herschel, a German astronomer who would have been 266 today
The H word
Comet-bagger Caroline Herschel and an extraordinary ride to Greenwich
In August 1797 Caroline Herschel was about to announce her eighth comet. The way in which she did tells us much about her character, and the lot of an 18th-century female astronomer
January 2016
Jonathan Jones on art
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: it's about time the radical dada star got a Google doodle
Charles Perrault: the modern fairytale's fairy godfather
November 2015
Music blog
Adolphe Sax Google Doodle: five unforgettable saxophone songs
Google has marked the 201st anniversary of Adolphe Sax’s birth – and here are five songs that wouldn’t have been the same without his invention
September 2015
When is Google's birthday? 17th anniversary doodle recalls 'humble beginnings'
A chunky PC, lava lamp and the 1998 Google logo encourage users to wish the company a happy birthday
August 2015
La Tomatina festival inspires a cheerfully messy Google doodle
Search engine honours 70th edition of food fight festival in Spanish town of Buñol, which does not actually grow tomatoes
July 2015
Google doodles aren’t just naff – they’re trying to rebrand the past
Phil Hoad
Women’s World Cup 2015: Google doodle celebrates Sunday’s final
May 2015
Barbapapa at 45: bon anniversaire to much-loved French cartoon clan
