Among the numerous little nitty-grittites in technology that we witness quite often these days, there are some that just leave us speechless. They just make you pause and wonder at the sheer creativity and technical brilliance which went into creating them. One such example is the Google Symbol or Logo, if one may call it, which changes almost every day. Everything about the different logos each day is just superlative. They always manage to win my heart and leave me in a little awe.
One such was the one created for 9th June 2011, and it was according to me, THE best one created till date! I am putting up some pictures of it with this post, to remind some of those who might have seen it.
When I first looked at it, I didn’t understand what was so special about it. I mean, it really was just a couple of strings placed here and there right! But then accidentally, I moved my mouse cursor over one of the strings and guess what….. a musical note played! And what note? A guitar note. So basically, the different strings in the logo, were different guitar strings, each playing a distinct musical note. I was so surprised and excited (I dunno why!) that I went ahead and experimented with all the strings to see what all sounds there were. And to make it a little more eve-catching, they’d associated colors with the different strings which got activated each time you played a string.
And while playing with it I discovered something more. You notice the little keyboard-like button just above the text box? When I clicked on it, it turned red in color. When clicked, consecutive keyboard keys produced the same variety of sounds produced by the different guitar strings on the picture, and the strings would still move and change color. 
And you know, with this new knowledge, I played ‘Sa Re Ga Ma’ through the “QWERTYU” keys…ain’t that neat!! 
This doodle was created on the 96th birthday of Les Paul, a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible.
Another interesting one was with the GOOGLE letters formed into clay balls and clay creatures. Created for Oct 12, 2011, this was on the birthday of Art Clokey, the man who pioneered stop motion clay animation. The google letters would take the shape of a live clay creature when the mouse would hover over it. Really cute and intelligent this one too!
To enjoy these doodle if u missed them, click on the following links (Disclaimer – The features mentioned herein may have slightly changed or updated) !!
http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html