# Today's animated Google Doodle recaps 2014

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**Created:** [December 31, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-animated-google-doodle-recaps-2014/708613 "2014-12-31T14:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-animated-google-doodle-recaps-2014/708613/1 "2014-12-31T14:01:50Z")

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> **[Google](https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl)**
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> Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.

I can’t figure out what the first element is supposed to be, though – the thing that comes bouncing out of the second “O”

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-animated-google-doodle-recaps-2014/708613/2 "2014-12-31T14:04:14Z")

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Based on this, I guess it’s supposed to be Flappy Bird. I missed that trend.

> **[2014 trending topics: Google bids farewell to the year with top](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/new-year-s-eve-2014-google-bids-farewell-to-the-year-with-toptrending-searches-doodle-9951040.html)**
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> The Doodle features some of the year's top-trending stories

> **[Flappy Bird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird)**
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> Flappy Bird is a mobile game developed by the Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Hà Đông), under his game development company .Gears. The game is a side-scroller where the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between columns of green pipes without hitting them. Nguyen created the game over the period of several days, using a bird protagonist that he had designed for a cancelled game in 2012.
> The game was released in May 2013 but received a sudden s...

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-animated-google-doodle-recaps-2014/708613/3 "2014-12-31T14:57:32Z")

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Yup, Flappy Bird. It was huge for a while.