Everybody likes Google Doodles,
those creative modifications of the Google logo that appear every so often on google.com and other Google search homepages. To let
budding artists try their hand at doodling, we’ve hosted various Doodle 4 Google competitions
around the world. This year’s Doodle 4 Google was open to
U. S. students enrolled in schools serving grades K-12.
This week we announced the 50
state finalists, divided by grade group, and they’re very creative. Take a look, but
more than that, you can vote for your favorites, one per grade group. Voting is open until May
10th. And after you’ve looked at this year’s student entries, you can spend time reliving old
favorites on our Doodles archive
site.
Now travel back in time to an age even before there were Google Doodles, when huge dinosaurs
roamed the Earth. According to fossils found by Chinese scientists, these enormous beasts were
bothered by Pseudopulex jurassicus and Pseudopulex
magnus, giant insects 10 times
the size of modern fleas that crawled on dinosaurs and packed a painful bite. So it
turns out that being a dinosaur wasn’t all fun and games.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, a post with cool Google and non-Google stuff you
might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren’t necessarily related to developer
topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. Hat tip to Andres Ferrate and Mike Pegg for the
link to the cupcake map. By the way, happy Star Wars Day, and May the 4th be with
you.
