Since then, this new idea of altering the logo when celebrating notable events was born, and the Doodles progressed. You can also see that the logo was different, with an exclamation mark at the end. And this was just less than a week before it would be offically incorporated as a company. Google was very young at the time – it had only been a couple of years since the search engine had been built by these two Stanford students.

They put a stick figure icon, resembling the Burning Man logo, behind the second 'O' as an 'Out Of Office' message to let users know of their absence in a fun and creative way. The first doodle was created when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin attended the annual Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert in the United States on 30 August 1998. When you click on the Doodle animation you can find more information about that specific topic and a little game or interaction sometimes sometimes accompanies the doodle. They highlight world issues, major historical events, worldwide holidays, local celebrations, anniversaries and important figures' brithdays (including pioneers, artists, and scientists) along with their contributions to society. But more often that not, they are very creative and artistic expressions. These Doodles range from small, simple and temporary alterations to the traditional logo. On many occassions the logo will be different and accompanied by what's called a Doodle.

When you land on the page, right above the search box, you'll see Google's logo. People conduct billions of searches every day. To celebrate the anniversary, Namco has released championship editions for Apple's iPhone and iPad.The homepage for the Google Search engine is the most viewed webpage in the world. There's a light-hearted, human touch to both of them.' They're both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. 'Pac-Man seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. 'Google doodler Ryan Germick and I made sure to include Pac-Man's original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts' individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980's masterpiece,' said Marcin Wichary, senior user experience designer at Google and co-creator of the Pac-Man doodle. Visitors can click on the 'insert coin' button or wait 10 seconds to automatically start the game, which reaches 256 levels. ET today (midnight in Japan), Google turned its homepage over to a Pac-Man game that can be played for the next 48 hours. To help recognize the pop culture mainstay, at 11 a.m. Now the game is listed by Guinness World Records as the world's most successful coin-operated game. 'Paku' is the Japanese sound for 'chomp.'

The name of the game comes from the sound of eating, according to the official Pac-Man website. in October 1980 and went on to sell more than 100,000 units in its first year of production. Originally called Puck Man, Pac-Man launched in the U.S. On the now-iconic Pac-Man game was released in Japan by Namco Bandai Games. And to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic video arcade game, Google has unveiled its first-ever interactive doodle – a Pac-Man game that Web users can play straight from Google's homepage.

Pac man 30th anniversary play