From The Telegraph: St Basil’s Cathedral to the Great Wall of China: Google Doodle celebrates holiday scenes from around the world
”Michael Lopez, Google’s “chief doodler”, said the team – who spent 250 hours on the design – wanted to gather as broad a set of images as possible…However he added: “The questions is, ‘How do we celebrate these holidays without religious symbolism?’...“We want to end the year with a bang.”
From Christian Science Monitor: Google logo today: Decoding Google’s holiday doodle :
”At first, you’ll see portraits of scenes around the world…Click on the first image and you’re taken to a Google search on St. Basil’s Cathedral in Russia, and as you make your way through the digital postcards, travel to the Great Wall of China, the Sahara desert, Venice gondolas, and end with ‘Up on the housetop,’ click, click, click – a secular Santa song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864.”