Doodles Google!!

                   Over the years, doodles on the Google homepage have made searching on Google more fun and enjoyable for its users worldwide. When doodles were first created, nobody had anticipated how popular and integral they would become to the Google search experience. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the release of each new doodle and some even collect them! 

                 Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists. 

                                     1998

                In 1998, the concept of the doodle was born when Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd "o" in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were “out of office.” While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was well received by our users.  

                                            

                                          

 

Aug 30, 1998    Burning Man festival - (Global)

                                                  

Nov 26, 1998    Happy Thanksgiving! - (US)

                                              

                               1999

 

                              

Dec 25, 1999   Season's Greetings with a Google Doodle

                                                  

                            

Nov 30, 1999 'Uncle Sam' search - (US)

                                 

Nov 30, 1999 'Uncle Sam' search - (US)

 

                        

Nov 23, 1999   Happy Thanksgiving - (US)

                                               

Oct 31, 1999   Happy Halloween - (US)

                                  

                                  2000                                                

 

                                                  

Jan 01, 2000   Happy New Year!

                                         

Feb 02, 2000  Groundhog Day - (US)

 

Google's first animated graphic for Valentine’s Day, a holiday commemorating 

love and the search for true happiness. Feb 14, 2000

                                            

Mar 17, 2000   St. Patrick's Day - (US)

 

 

Orkut Buyukkokten( the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when a person registers to this website. He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend. He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain. He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you. He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut. He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list. He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan. He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan. He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut. He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph. He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend’s scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend’s friend-list. Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the richest-person in the world by the end of 2009. Finally, this is the best fact. This person has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 assistants to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps a day. Orkut’s slogan is “Who do you know? Traffic of Orkut on February 10, 2011 Brazil 53.6% India 35.0% Japan 2.3% United States 1.8% Pakistan 0.7%   Other 5.2%
As of February 2011, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 102nd in the world; the website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide.[update]

Facebook Facts !!!

About Facebook  : Founded in February 2004, Face book is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.

 Employees : 2,000+

Users : Over 500 million active (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)

• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• Average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

 Activity:

• There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
• Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
• Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
• More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month. 

Global Reach :

• More than 70 translations available on the site
• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
• Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

Platform:

• Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
• People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
• Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
• Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
• More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of comScore's U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore's Global Top 100 websites

Mobile:

• There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products