BANGALORE: A row of coloured buttons. Was it a software simulation interface used for composing music? No. Was it some form of MIDI, enabling playback of music online? Negative. Surely, it was not a April-fool trick, with even the New Year yet to dawn upon us. Cutting all suspense short, it was search engine behemoth Google’s interactive doodle for Christmas. The coloured buttons generated the first few notes of the carol Jingle Bells when clicked upon, followed by an impromptu rendition of the song spreading the Yuletide spirit on the right note, ahem... literally!In the build up to Christmas, the creation of artificial snow flakes on computer monitors even in tropical countries when the words “let it snow” were entered in the Google’s search bar was, and continues to remain, the buzz on all social networking sites. The “mist” could, of course, be wiped off at the click of a “defrost” button.The first doodle a modification of Google’s logo to highlight special days, festivals or birth anniversaries of noted personalities was created by founders of the search engine, Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 to commemorate the Burning Man festival. The website featured a colourless logo in the local homepage in the event of the tragedy.Over a period of time, it was expected of Google to react to events os significance in the past and present on its logo and this was called doodles.Presently, however, If you were still humming to ‘Jingle Bells, the site moves on to wish you happy holidays by throwing by search engine results for the same. Happy holidays.
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