# Well, shucks. My Google Doodle is wishing ME a happy birthday. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217 "2013-08-03T02:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/1 "2013-08-03T02:23:47Z")
Well, that was unexpected. I just went to [https://www.google.ca](https://www.google.ca) and there’s cakes and candles and the mouse-over says “Happy Birthday Doug!” Gee. I am not worthy, but thanks Google-bots. Doug ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/2 "2013-08-03T02:28:13Z")
Happy Birthday you poor deluded Leafs fan 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/3 "2013-08-03T03:13:43Z")
Well, have a happy birthday, and a very merry Civic Holiday weekend! (or is that a merry birthday, and a happy Civic Holiday weekend?) ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/4 "2013-08-03T03:37:33Z")
You gotta admit, those google people are clever. And happy birthday mate! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/5 "2013-08-03T04:08:34Z")
_I_ didn’t get a custom Google doodle… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/6 "2013-08-03T04:51:26Z")
Happy Birthday, **Leaffan**! ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/7 "2013-08-03T18:43:03Z")
I got it on my birthday, too. How does it know? ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/8 "2013-08-03T20:34:19Z")
> [@turtlescanfly](#): > > I got it on my birthday, too. How does it know? Google has collected a ton of information on all of us these days. ☹ Do you use something like Gmail or Google+? I imagine somewhere along the way you put your birthday in a profile. As a matter of policy, I always give the wrong birthdate to these sorts of things. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/9 "2013-08-03T21:10:43Z")
Happy Birthday Doug! 🙂 I am not a bot. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/10 "2013-08-04T03:34:00Z")
> [@turtlescanfly](#): > > I got it on my birthday, too. How does it know? Google knows more about you than the NSA. After all the NSA goes and asks Google for the info! ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/11 "2013-08-04T12:57:23Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Well, have a happy birthday, and a very merry Civic Holiday weekend! > > (or is that a merry birthday, and a happy Civic Holiday weekend?) Merry Dougmas? ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/12 "2013-08-04T17:07:13Z")
That’s creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/13 "2013-08-04T19:43:47Z")
> [@turtlescanfly](#): > > I got it on my birthday, too. How does it know? It’s Google. They know \*everything \*about you. ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/14 "2013-08-05T02:50:41Z")
Look on the bright side, Doug - on your fiftieth, maybe the Google doodle will graphically remind you that it’s time for a colonoscopy. Not sure I want to know what that would look like. As a side note, I switched a ways back to [the Duck](https://duckduckgo.com/) (after seeing DuckDuckGo mentioned on the SDMB, of course!) and ever since I’ve had this nagging feeling that - somehow - Google can still tap into another search engine’s history. The Duck [says they don’t track or send](http://donttrack.us/), but damn, Google sure seems to have some long-ass tentacles. It feels like they’re still wrapping around some part of me, somehow… Oh, BTW - Happy belated birthday, Doug! Same as my daughter’s. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/15 "2013-08-05T03:24:52Z")
> [@sangfroid](#): > > Look on the bright side, Doug - on your fiftieth, maybe the Google doodle will graphically remind you that it’s time for a colonoscopy. Not sure I want to know what that would look like. I just hope it isn’t one of the interactive doodles. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/16 "2013-08-05T03:28:23Z")
Alas, 50th was last year and I still haven’t been 'scoped. I should probably do something about that… ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/17 "2013-08-17T13:45:04Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Alas, 50th was last year and I still haven’t been 'scoped. > > I should probably do something about that… Happy Birthday. Better to get scoped than find something too late (I think they use body scanners or swallow-cams these days) ---
**Author:** ![NotMyselfOfLate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@NotMyselfOfLate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMyselfOfLate)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/18 "2013-08-17T13:59:55Z")
**Belated happy birthday, Leaffan. BTW, lavenderviolet, I never give my real age either. I’M 98 on Facebook.** ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/19 "2013-08-18T03:02:52Z")
Huh. Today is my birthday and it did it for me, too. Neat…and I didn’t realize I had inputted that into their system before. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217/20 "2013-08-18T03:06:00Z")
> [@Queen\_Tonya](#): > > I am not a bot. All the good bots would say that, you know. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-shucks-my-google-doodle-is-wishing-me-a-happy-birthday/665217.md?page=2)