Google’s July 4 doodle sans American flag disappoints many

The internet giant wrote on its official twitter account, “From sea to shining sea, a very happy Fourth to everyone.” An image of the doodle accompanied the tweet posted early morning on Monday.

The doodle did not have an American flag but it showed the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge, base ball, and of course the fireworks.

The Independence Day doodle also had some other symbols of America’s heartland like a horse sporting a cowboy hat, a barn, an open road, a house with white picket fence and a sports car parked in front, and the Sears Tower of Chicago.

The South was represented by the images of a guitar and the Florida orange.

The first Google doodle appeared when its company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin posted a Google Burn doodle to indicate they were “out of office” at the Burning man festival.

Reactions to doodle
However, the Independence Day doodle disappointed many as it did not have the American flag. Some even took to the micro-blogging site Twitter, to express their disappointment.

For instance, a person named richaj2 stated, “Google's July 4 doodle: Gosh, no American flag: Wake up.”

Another person named Txsleuth tweeted, “Just one reason I haven't signed up for Google+ @toddstarnes No American flag in Google holiday doodle.”

Also, some graphics representation of Google's logo to honor an event, culture, birthdays, etc, have been quite interactive. So those looking for an interactive doodle like the Les Paul doodle were also disappointed.

In the past Google doodles included one that followed the progress of lunar eclipse in real time and the other one that allowed users to play Pac-Man.

History of Google doodle
The first Google doodle appeared when its company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin posted a Google Burn doodle to indicate they were “out of office” at the Burning man festival.

They put a stick figure behind the letter ‘o’ in Google at its home page. That was in 1998, now thirteen later, Google has a team of designers dedicated to create doodles to honor and commemorate historical events.

There is also a doodle store where people can buy shirts with their favorite doodles. The last global doodle was to honor musician les Paul on his birthday when the Google doodle allowed people to play music from the homepage itself.

An estimate by blog Extreme Tech says that 10.7 million hours were spent by users on the strings of the electric guitar during its two day run on the Google home page across the globe.

This year on Jan. 20, three different doodles were running in Japan, America and Israel to mark three different occasions in these countries.