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![google doodle la tomatina](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/google-doodle-la-tomatina.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Google doodle sally ride](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google-doodle-sally-ride.gif?w=2400&quality=75)
![Google-Doodle-Eiffel-Tower-France](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/google-doodle-eiffel-tower-france.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Mar. 20, 2015 To celebrate the start of spring and the vernal equinox, Google created a stop-motion animation of flowers in bloom.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/google-doodle-vernal-equinox.gif?w=2400&quality=75)
![Nov. 12, 2014 For the landing of the Philae lander, the first spacecraft on a moving comet, Google created a gyrating lander with passing stars.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/google-doodle-space-comet.png?w=2400&quality=75)
![Sept. 9, 2014 For Tolstoy's 186th birthday the Google Doodle team created an appropriately long doodle, with a click-through doodle. http://time.com/3308635/google-doodle-tolstoy/](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tolstoy-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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![May 4 2014 For the Audrey Hepburn doodle http://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/ the doodle team adapted an image from a 1956 black and white photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hepburn-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![June 9, 2011 The doodlers came up with the idea of a playable logo, then pegged it to guitar innovator Les Paul's 96th birthday. Turning on composer mode allows you to create songs that you can share online.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/les-paul-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![March 24, 2011 The Harry Houdini doodle was created in the style of the old posters advertising the death-defying magician.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/houdini-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Nov. 25, 2010 Chef Ina Garten prepared this Thanksgiving feast, which Google photographed. If you clicked on a dish, her recipe appeared.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ina-garten-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![May 7, 2010 Google asked the San Francisco Ballet to pose and twirl to re-create Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/swan-lake-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Oct. 7, 2009 Scan the doodle that marks the first patent for the bar code and you'll decode Google embedded within.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bar-code-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![March 2, 2009 The doodlers arranged classic Dr. Seuss characters, like the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch, to form the logo's letters.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dr-suess-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Jan. 28, 2009 There was no other way to honor abstract artist Jackson Pollack than with a chaotic drip painting.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pollock-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Jan. 19, 2009 Guest artist Shepard Fairey (famed for his Obama HOPE poster) did a sketch for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mlk-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Jan. 28, 2008 Early on, Google used Lego blocks as casing for hard disks. Later it feted Lego's 50th anniversary.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lego-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![April 22, 2007 A melting iceberg for Earth Day is one of many eco-minded doodles the team has created.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/earth-day-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Jan. 4, 2006 Enter the world of out-there doodles — Google in braille. Only problem: you can't feel it.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/braille-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![March 30, 2005 The Van Gogh doodle appeared in an era when doodles began to get more ambitious, and it's one of the doodlers' best interpretations of a specific painter.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/van-gogh-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Aug. 13, 2003 Early doodles of famous folk tended to be simple, like this silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hitchcock-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![March 14, 2003 The early doodles were often simple but playful, like this mustachioed drawing of Albert Einstein to celebrate his birthday.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/einstein-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Nov. 14, 2001 Google's first doodler, Dennis Hwang, gave the logo an Impressionist look for Claude Monet's birthday.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/monet-google-doodle.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Aug. 30, 1998 When employees left for the Burning Man festival, the Google logo became a cryptic BE BACK LATER sign. "There was no master plan for doodles at that point," says doodler-in-chief Ryan Germick.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/googleburn.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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