Why a doodle on Rabindranath Tagore?
Because of Tagore s contribution to Bengali literature, he has an emotional connect with the people of Bengal. Google is a very personal tool. On Google, you search for what you want. If you think about every company, each one has a logo or guideline. In Google, we try to bring alive the personality behind the brand. Why not a doodle on IPL or elections? We get a lot of cricket ideas but since the IPL is a specific tournament headed by a company, we can t promote it. And doodles are done for a day and there is no one day that defines a election. We also thought about doodles related to music but what people remember it for is the audio aspect, it s more audio than visual. Do you create new doodles for recurring holidays? We try and come up with new doodles because we don t like to repeat them. For example, we have a new Xmas doodle each year. Google recently involved a lot of students in a doodle contest in the US. When will Indian students feature on Google s doodle map? We re having
