Google's homepage features a medley of chomping, trunked, glasses-flipping Muppets in a new Google Doodle that honors the 75th anniversary of the birthday of late Muppets creator Jim Henson, who was born September 24, 1936.
The HTML5-powered logo is interactive and includes a few fun surprises: you can play "puppeteer" by clicking on the colored circles beneath each of the characters, which opens their mouths, and the Muppets will follow your cursor with their eyes when you move your mouse. One of the characters will throw his glasses into the air, and another actually eats a fellow Muppet (See the video below).
Henson's son Brian Henson, now chairman of the Jim Henson Company, wrote a post in Google's blog about the doodle paying tribute to his father.
"He loved dogs, particularly goofy ones. And he lived for those moments when everyone laughed so hard they couldn’t talk," Henson wrote, while also recalling his father's passion for games, being allowed to stay up late to watch his father's appearance on TV, and his father's sense that "the Muppets were a family."
The Google doodle celebrating the search engine's 13th birthday
Now officially a teenager, Google has celebrated turning 13 in its customarily simple manner with a doodle showing the five letters of the company logo sitting around a cake.
With the search engine giant barely out of short trousers, the birthday celebrations come at a time when it is locked in an increasingly intense rivalry with an even younger pretender, Facebook.
Amid suggestions that Facebook could become the default form of online navigation, Google recently tried to overhaul its rival with Google+.
Research from Nielsen earlier this month showed that US internet users spend more time on Facebook than any other website.
At the same time, Google enjoys a 90% share of the global internet search market, according to the most recent figures from metrics firm StatsCounter, although its share varies considerably by country.
The doodle is in keeping with Google's low-key approach to celebrating its birthday. Unlike other doodles, it has no animated features and is based instead on a simple design.
With the search engine giant barely out of short trousers, the birthday celebrations come at a time when it is locked in an increasingly intense rivalry with an even younger pretender, Facebook.
Amid suggestions that Facebook could become the default form of online navigation, Google recently tried to overhaul its rival with Google+.
Research from Nielsen earlier this month showed that US internet users spend more time on Facebook than any other website.
At the same time, Google enjoys a 90% share of the global internet search market, according to the most recent figures from metrics firm StatsCounter, although its share varies considerably by country.
The doodle is in keeping with Google's low-key approach to celebrating its birthday. Unlike other doodles, it has no animated features and is based instead on a simple design.
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