Happy New Years eve everyone! Well, if you are in the Australian region, happy New Years to you! To celebrate, Google has a world wide New Years Eve logo, aka Doodle, on their home page for 2014. The logo, when you click on it, takes you to a query for [2014 trending topics], which shows you the highlights for 2014.

Here is a copy of the animated Doodle:

The Google 2014 New Years Eve logo incorporates many of the trending topics of 2014. It highlights the 2014 World Cup, the Philae robotic lander, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Flappy Bird, and the Mars Orbiter Mission. The logo was designed by a guest named Cindy Suen. She said on Twitter:

Bing on the other hand goes bold and big with a background image of fireworks:

This image has been removed because of fear of being sued over copyright…

Yahoo and Dogpile and others don’t have anything yet but I suspect by New Years, they will have something live.

We have a theme for today as well:

And tomorrow, here is a preview of the Google Doodle for New Years Day 2015:

Forum discussion at Google+.