How Do Google Decide What Their Doodle Should Be?

[bednobs]

today it tells me it's clare hollingwoth's 107 birthday.
Well ok, but she is actually dead (so not really her "birthday" in a meaningful sense) and since when has 107th birthdays of dead people been relevant or interesting?
im sure she was a very interesting person, but c'mon!

[Buenchico]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/12/meet-people-behind-google-doodles-logo

[Mamyalynne]

I think the sheer random nature of the dates in particular is part of their charm, I also often learn something new about a person I'd never researched before.

Some of the interactive ones are great fun.

[mushroom25]

my default is set to google Norway and today they advise it's fridtjof nansens's 156th birthday. scientist, adventurer and humanitarian, probably best known in Britain for advice given to Captain Scott.

[THECORBYLOON]

She died earlier in the year aged 105 so she lived to a good age and had an interesting life. Looks like Google accept suggestions so if you can think on more worthy folk or incidents to mind on, on you go!

[pastafreak]

According to this article, she scooped the prediction of the outbreak of WW2 at the tender age of 27. Not too shabby.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/telegraphs-clare-hollingworth-broke-news-world-war-ii-saved/

[pastafreak]

Oh...and aren't the doodles often about individuals who might otherwise be bypassed by history?

[Old_Geezer]

Stopped looking at them ages ago. They were novel at the start but after a while I was finding it an uninteresting distraction. It'd have helped if most weren't about something that meant nothing to me. Were it filling in details of something I was aware of that'd be more attractive.

[bednobs]

hey pasta, perhaps they were fogotten by history for a reason?