In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, designed a special logo in honor of Burning Man to indicate to users if the servers were down. It was just the first, as you know, of many: the Doodle became a whole institution. In fact, it’s estimated that 4.8 million working hours in May 2010 were spent playing the Pac-Man Doodle. And that was just the beginning.
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Google has launched a gigantic and playable Doodle in the style of ‘Where’s Waldo?’ where your challenge will be to find the 25 most searched terms of recent years, from Pikachu to Cristiano Ronaldo, including the heart icon or the city of New York. So you don’t start clicking randomly, there’s a tab with clues, of course. You can play it right here, by the way.
On the map, you can find jokes and references to this quarter-century in the best Martin Hanford style: there are battles between wizards and giant robots, huge slides, and even a miniature Earth with Albert Einstein floating around it. If you spent a couple of hours with Pac-Man, here you have much more because, on top of it, there’s an additional added game.
By now, there’s no doubt that Taylor Swift is the most famous artist of today. Google knows it, and that’s why you can also search for the 10 albums of the singer throughout the drawing, in case you want to do the Taylor’s Version of the Doodle. It’s a true marvel where you can reminisce about the most iconic moments (and beyond: Beethoven appears playing the piano) of these last 25 years. A widespread applause. They’ve done it again.
