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22 April 2012 - 15:27 AMT

Google celebrates Earth Day with doodle

Google has created a special doodle on its home page that makes the letters of its name turn into flowers to commemorate Earth Day.

The doodle shows a leafy version of Google's name on top of a patch of dirt that grows red, blue and yellow flowers.

Clicking on it, user will go to a Google search results page for "Earth Day," where he/she can learn that the original Earth Day was started by a Wisconsin senator who witnessed a 1969 oil spill off the coast of California and called for the first Earth Day to be held on April 22, 1970.

Other than sprouting blossoms, the doodle isn't interactive as some others have been. Yet the artistic rendering of Google's home page is remarkable in that it aggressively tries to lure visitors to other Google properties, PCWorld says.

"Roses are red, violets are blue, for Earth Day this year, let's all plant a few" sits under the doodle and if you click on the link Google takes you to a special Earth Day page that links to YouTube videos on gardening, a Google Map that displays the weather in various locations, an image search page for tomato plants, a recipe view search for "chicken pasta," a Google+ photos page where you can share photos of your garden and another Google+ page about gardens.