Today in China is the Lantern Festival, the traditional end of the 15-day long Chinese New Year celebrations, although most people actually went back to work at the start of last week. And so many search engines have festive doodles depicting lanterns, or perhaps even the ‘tang yuan’ sticky rice dessert that many will eat tonight.
Here are eight cute Lantern Festival doodles from both Chinese and overseas search engines. They’re in no particular order, though I’ve saved my personal favourite for last:
The whole Google.com (NASDAQ:GOOG) domain is now showing this assortment of glowing lanterns, pictured above, with the illumination spelling out the company’s name.
China’s most popular search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), has an animated doodle, with decorative papercuts spinning around.
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing always has large background images on its search page, but still it’s nice to see a Lantern-themed one for today’s festival.
Soso.com, which is run by Tencent (HKG:0700), has gone for the most cutesy doodle, with a kid riding a paper dragon. It’s a reference to the dragon boats, bedecked with lights and lanterns, that will parade along many rivers and lakes across China tonight.
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