The Les Paul Google doodle is arguably now one of the search giant's most popular homepage creations. The doodle, in honor of musician and electric guitar pioneer Les Paul, featured the strings of a guitar in the shape of the Google logo. As a result, many a Google user took to the Web to play their favorite songs on the doodle. YouTube user bassistuk recorded three separate tunes—melody, bass, and rhythm—and spliced it together to create the 1983 hit.
This doodle has been receiving special treatment from Google. The first was the PacMan doodle (google.com/pacman/) from May 21, 2010 and the other is the Robert Bunsen doodle (google.com/logos/bunsen.html) from May 31, 2011. Google's Les Paul doodle gets a permanent home. Google engineers Kristopher Hom and Joey Hurst and doodle team lead Ryan Germick helped put together the innovative doodle.
Not even celebrities were immune to the charms of Google's latest Doodle, an interactive online guitar paying homage to guitar hero Les Paul. These are aside from the thousands of videos posted on video-sharing site YouTube by "ordinary" users playing the Doodle. The Les Paul Doodle is the latest hit interactive Google Doodle. Story behind the Les Paul Doodle. The Google team behind the Doodle was overwhelmed with the positive response. The guitar chords one hears while playing the Doodle began with Google's Creative Lab Designer Alexander Chen's own Les Paul guitar. Rolling Stone said that Google's entire design team was thrilled by the creative ways in which people used the Doodle. Chen recalled seeing a YouTube video where people brought three computers and were playing as a trio. Germick hinted the Les Paul Doodle may be immortalized like the Pacman Doodle from last year, which Google kept alive at google.com/pacman.