Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to public transport workers

WHETHER you're on your phone, computer, or tablet you'll come across a sweet animation dedicated to public transportation workers on Google today.

The search engine is paying tribute to all those working to ensure public transport doesn't grind to a halt amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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What is today's Google Doodle?

This Google Doodle is part of a series of designs made to thank those continuing to work on the front line as communities across the world are hit by Covid-19.

Today's Doodle thanks public transport workers for keeping key workers on the move during lockdown.

It comprises a drawing of a public bus, and a pink love heart flying towards it in the air.

Google has also created Doodles thanking grocery workers, farm workers and farmers, custodial and sanitation workers, teachers and childcare workers, and emergency services.

This comes alongside other ways and means people across the UK are using to celebrate the brave work of those in key worker roles.

In Thursday evenings people are coming together to Clap for Our Carers on at 8pm.

And a new social  media trend has begun called Run 5, Donate 5, Nominate 5, that gets friends running 5km to raise money for NHS staff and volunteers.

What is a Google Doodle?

In 1998, the search engine founders Larry and Sergey drew a stick figure behind the second 'o' of Google as a message to that they were out of office at the Burning Man festival and with that, Google Doodles were born.

The company decided that they should decorate the logo to mark cultural moments and it soon became clear that users really enjoyed the change to the Google homepage.

In that same year, a turkey was added to Thanksgiving and two pumpkins appeared as the 'o's for Halloween the following year.

Now, there is a full team of doodlers, illustrators, graphic designers, animators and classically trained artists who help create what you see on those days.

Among the Doodles in 2020 is one celebrating Ignaz Semmelweis, a German-Hungarian physician who discovered that hand-washing dramatically reduced deaths of women during childbirth.

Another Doodle was created for Leap Day 2020 that saw a jumping logo.