World's Cultural Tour Via Google Doodle For December 2010 Holiday Season

The Google Doodle Culture Tour is referring to "Indian dance styles" through a link on fourth image from the lower left corner:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Indian+dance+styles&ct=holiday10-hp&oi=ddle

Other images are linked to the following keywords:

St. Basil's Cathedral

Acropolis

Mt. Fuji

Buche de Noel

pierogi

Great Wall of China

Sahara desert

oud

chili pepper

Sydney Harbour

Nepal

Venice gondolas

Chilean vineyards

African kanga

Up on the housetop

Henna lamp

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Happy 12th Birthday to Google!!! 

Google is now celebrating its 12th Birthday with New Google Doodle/Logo.

Google is celebrating its birthday on 27th September instead of 7th September with a new Google Doodle. Following is the new Google Doodle that has been used for its 12th Birthday.

 Happy 12th Birthday Google by Wayne Thiebaud. Image used with permission of VAGA NY.
Image used above is a direct link to the server Location of Google's Logo and all rights goes to Vaga NY

As per the Google Tool Tip for the Doodle, the image is used by taking permission from Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc. and is designed by Thiebaud, Wayne of VAGA. According to Vaga.org:

VAGA is an artists rights organization and copyright collective representing reproduction rights (copyright) for approximately 500 American artists and, through agreements with affiliated organizations in other countries, thousands of foreign artists worldwide.

This means that the Google's 12th Birthday Doodle is designed outside the boundary of Google Inc. and Google has to use this copyright protected image by taking permission from VAGA.

Well that does not matter to us, we love Google and wish to see it gives the best results in future and should be remain free from any of Board of Directors profit making/financial interests.

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 Instant Coffee, Money & Now Instant Search:Google Instant

Sep 8, 2010: Google has added a new feather to its crown and launched new searching feature: Google Instant. As you start typing a single word on Google, search result page will be served to you instantly. According to GOOGLE:

Google Instant is starting to roll-out to users on Google domains in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia who use the following browsers: Chrome v5/6, Firefox v3, Safari v5 for Mac and Internet Explorer v8. Please note, users on domains other than Google.com can only access Google Instant if they are signed in to a Google Account. We will continue to add new domains and languages over the next several months.

Below is the image of Google Instant Search Text Suggestion, having On/Off link next to it.

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