26th of January is celebrated all across India as the Republic Day. The Republic Day honours the date on which the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950 replacing the Government of India Act as the governing document of India. Google Doodle, commemorates important dates and events across the country is celebrating the Republic Day in India.
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages that commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and people. You can head to google.com/doodles to see all the important events that took place on that particular day. Google surely knows to make full use of the abundance of data it possesses.
The Google Doodle on display for the Republic Day, however, was not created on the first go. Google reveals different designs that came about before the final one was chosen.
Interestingly, the first ever Google Doodle honoured the Burning Man festival in 1998. It was designed by Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed.
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