In 2004, Copernicus was the inspiration of an April Fool’s Day joke from Google, which announced it was interviewing candidates for engineering positions at the Copernicus Center, a lunar hosting and research center, set to open in the spring of...
On June 15, you could watch the live stream of a rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse on the Google channel on YouTube. Its engineers gave three gifts to YouTube Partners, wrapped up as new features:
In 2004, the Google Copernicus Center announced it was interviewing candidates for engineering positions at a lunar hosting and research center, which was opening late in the spring of 2007. Google’s practical jokes began a day early in 2012, with...
The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first month of China’s lunar year to mark the end of celebrations for the Chinese New Year. The Lantern Festival was celebrated on Google’s homepages with a special logo in Taiwan and Hong Kong today.
January 23 is Chinese New Year, and heralds the Lunar New Year of the Water Dragon, a once in every 60 years occurrence. Another Chinese search engine, Sogou.com, has created an animated video depicting the Lunar New Year celebrations with the...
This photo came ahead of Google's extremely popular interactive Doodle which covered the lunar eclipse 15 days later. Whilst Google celebrated the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel, with a Google Doodle today, Bing paid homage to Moon day which...
A Google Doodle, as well as two heaping scoops fulls of other access points from Google, give users the opportunity to check out today's lunar eclipse. The Lunar Eclipse Google Doodle Live from Google's home page, users can see a Google logo that...
Matteo’s logo, made with markers and colored pencils, creatively uses the Google letters, depicting a green alien, Earth, an astronaut in a space suit, lunar lander, rocket ship, and meteor. Today, the 7-year-old Monte Verde Elementary School...
Other events follow lunar calendars, like Ramadan, which is a sacred time for Muslims and the starting date of the month-long event based on the Islamic lunar calendar. Also, Google Calendar users can add in holiday and festival entries from many...
His company is a sponsor of the Google Lunar X Prize, a $25 million competition to land an unmanned craft on the moon. Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, is planning a trip to outer space in 2011, according to a report in the New York Times.
Speaking after the Google Lunar X Prize event at the Googleplex, Brin emphasized the need for open standards, Internet diversity and an open OS (operating system). Yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin described the Internet doomsday scenario if...
The (unofficial) Google Earth Blog discovered a free Google Earth Sky downloadable KML file that shows the exact time and place the lunar eclipse will begin in your hometown. For lucky Google Earthlings: you'll see an animated lunar eclipse.
