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"Doodle 4 Google" competitions Edit

Original Google "Doodler" employee Dennis Hwang at a Doodle 4 Google event in Beijing Main article: Doodle 4 Google Google holds competitions for school students to create their own Google doodles, referred to as "Doodle 4 Google".[36] Winning doodles go onto the Doodle 4 Google website, where the public can vote for the winner, who wins a trip to the Googleplex and the hosting of the winning doodle for 24 hours on the Google website. The competition originated in the United Kingdom, and has since expanded to the United States and other countries. The competition was also held in Ireland in 2008.[37] Google announced a Doodle 4 Google competition for India in 2009[38] and the winning doodle was displayed on the Google India homepage on November 14. A similar competition held in Singapore based on the theme "Our Singapore" was launched in January 2010 and the winning entry was chosen from over 30,000 entries received. The winning design was shown on Singapore's National Day on Google Singapore's homepage.[39] It was held again in 2015 in Singapore and was themed 'Singapore: The next 50 years'.

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a b [34][35] Google has used terminology including " Every year since 1999, Google has used a special international doodle as either one logo, or several interconnected logos, spanning at least the day of December 25 (sometimes beginning as early as December 20, and ending as late as December 27). Many of the logos have had winter themes, despite it being summer in the Southern Hemisphere, but few have had explicitly Christmas themes, opting for generic gift-giving instead. Google has rarely if ever used the word "Christmas" in relation to these Doodles, though multiple news sources have.Google has used terminology including " season's greetings ", " happy holidays ", "'tis the season", "end of year", and "holiday series" to describe the Doodles.