The Story of Google Doodles

Louis Braille's Birthday: Jan. 4, 2006
"We were able to catch a mistake on this one before it went live, thanks to one of our staff. When I sent the original draft around the company, one our engineers told me I had a typo. I was really confident I had been careful, so I asked him how he knew and he said, 'well, I'm blind.' He was able to see the mistake—an extra dot on each of the Os—because he still had 1% of his sight remaining. I was so grateful that he was able to catch that."

"It's always amazing to know a simple doodle can have an impact. After this went up a Canadian non-profit supporting the visually impaired wrote us to say just because of our doodle, web traffic to their website increased by ten-fold."

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