Today's Google doodle is simply astounding in its complexity and execution. Designed to celebrate the 78th birthday of inventor Dr Robert Moog, it is a fully interactive simulator of one of his eponymous electronic synthesisers.

The Moog synthesiser...

Another day, another Google Doodle - this time in celebration of what would have been the 101st birthday of origami grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa.

Yoshizawa, who lived to the ripe old age of 94 before passing away on his birthday in 2005, is...

Today's Google doodle has been finely crafted in honour of International Women's Day, the worldwide celebration that started in 1911, when people of both sexes took to the streets of Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland to campaign for women's...

Google doodles continue to get more random by the day - perhaps they are running out of ideas - so for 29 February instead of picking something to do with the chance women get every four years to propose to their man, Google has opted for the birthday...

Google has a bit of a tradition for doing something special with its doodles on Valentine's Day. This year, its the turn of a young boy and his efforts at getting a girl he likes to fancy him back. 

Appearing as a video when you click on the...

Google has hit us with a double whammy this morning. Not only does its most recent Doodle celebrate the life of someone that we've actually heard of for a change - Charles Dickens - it is also in recognition of what we'd call an actual milestone; it...

The latest Google Doodle has been unleashed by the Mountain View-based search giant in celebration of what would have been François Truffaut's 80th birthday.

Or rather, the latest three doodles, as the controversial critic turned film-maker...

Google is celebrating the 374th birthday of Danish anatomist Nicolas Steno with a colourful nod to his offerings to the world of geology. 

Steno is seen as the original modern day geologist, working heavily on fossils and rock layer formations....

Google's latest doodle has set the famous Google logo into a scene from the the Addams family to celebrate the birth of Charles Addams, the creator of the comics, on 7 January 1912.

Charles Addams, who died in 1988, was the American cartoonist...

Google has said "Happy Holidays" with a new Christmas inspired Google Doodle that is slowly rolling out on Google search sites around the world.

Popping up in New Zealand and Australia, where at time of writing it is already Christmas Eve,...

Google has paid tribute to silicon chip co-creator Robert Noyce with a very fetching, and rather ornate, micro-chip Google Doodle. This particular doodle celebrating the engineer's 84th birthday.

Noyce was one of the main driving forces behind...

Google has create one of its famous doodles to honour the birthday of mural artist Diego Rivera, or, to use his full name, Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez.

Born on 8 December...

Ah, the Google Doodle. It's becoming as familiar as toast and orange juice in the morning. The latest effort, to celebrate what would have been the 176th birthday of Mark Twain, is the 236th Doodle of the year.

The Twain Doodle, which depicts...

In what must be the most elaborate Google doodle since the logo became a game of Pacman, the search engine giant has created an interactive puzzle game with stunning line animation. The doodle celebrates the work of Polish sci-fi author Stanistaw Lem...

Google has produced another Google doodle which pays tribute to Louis Daguerre on his 224th birthday; inventor of the daguerreotype his process enabled the fixing of a permanent image to a silver coated copper plate.

Although his invention...