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To mark the autumnal equinox Google has created a new doodle.
The animation shows the company's name spelt out in a variety of traditional autumnal vegetables – with a cute squirrel bouncing between them.
Many have reacted positively to the doodle, marking the first day of autumn, with the squirrel proving particularly popular. A Twitter user said: "Google [Doodle] is just too adorable today!"
The autumnal equinox occurs when the daytime and night are approximately equal because the earth's axis point neither towards nor away from the sun. In Latin, the term 'equinox' means equal night.
Google celebrated the autumnal equinox last year with an animation showing a man walking along a row of grey trees which transformed into bright colour as he passed by.
Google DoodlesShow all 101 Google Doodles Autumnal Equinox Google marks the autumnal equinox on 23 September 2015
Google Doodles The first electric traffic stop Google marks the 101st anniversary of the first traffic signal system
Google Doodles New Horizons Pluto flyby Google marks the Nasa probe's fly-past of Pluto on 14 July 2015
Google Doodles Father's Day 2015 Google marks Father's Day with an animated Doodle
Google Doodles Magna Carta Google marks the Magna Carter's 800th birthday on 15 June 2015
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Google Doodles Women's World Cup Google celebrates the start of the 2015 Fifa Women's World Cup
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Google Doodles Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Google celebrates the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Google Doodles Inge Lehmann's 127th birthday Google celebrates the 127th birthday of Inge Lehmann
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Google Doodles United Kingdom Elections 2015 Google celebrates polling day in Britain
Google Doodles Nelly Bly's 151st birthday Google celebrates Nelly Bly's 151st birthday
Google Doodles Bartolomeo Cristofori's 360th birthday Google celebrates the inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori's 360th birthday
Google Doodles 175th anniversary of the Penny Black The Penny Black
Google Doodles St George's Day 2015 Google marks St George's Day 2015 with a Doodle
Google marks Earth Day with a Doodle
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Google Doodles The Loch Ness Monster photo Google marks the 81st anniversary of the Loch Ness Monster's most famous photograph
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Google Doodles BR Ambedkar Google celebrates Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer, BR Ambedkar
Google Doodles 126th Anniversary of the public opening of the Eiffel Tower Google celebrates the 126th Anniversary of the public opening of the Eiffel Tower
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Google Doodles Vernal Equinox Google celebrates the vernal equinox on the first day of Spring 2015 in the northern hemisphere
Google Doodles Solar Eclipse Google celebrates the solar eclipse on the first day of Spring 2015
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Google Doodles St Patrick's Day Google celebrates St Patrick's Day 2015
Google Doodles Mother's Day Google celebrates Mother's Day 2015
Google Doodles International Women's Day Google celebrates International Women's Day 2015
Today Google is celebrating the Indian festival, where people throw coloured paint and powder at each other
Google Doodles Momofuku Ando's Birthday Google celebrates Momofuku Ando's birthday
Google Doodles Gerardus Mercator's Birthday Google celebrates the 503rd birthday of Gerardus Mercator
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Google Doodles Lunar New Year 2015 Google celebrates the 2015 Lunar New Year with a Doodle of a goat
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Google Doodles Alessandro Volta’s 270th Birthday Google celebrates the 270th birthday of Alessandro Volta
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Google Doodles Valentine's Day 2015 Google launched a series of short animations for Valentine's Day 2015
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Google Doodles The start of the 2015 Cricket World Cup The start of the 2015 Cricket World Cup
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Google Doodles Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 148th Birthday A Google Doodle celebrating Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 148th Birthday
Google Doodles 11 years since Kimani Maruge's first day at school A Google Doodle celebrating Kimani Maruge, believed to be the oldest man to enroll into primary school, aged 84.
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Google Doodles Langston Hughes' 113th birthday Google's animated Doodle marking the jazz poets' anniversary
Google Doodles New Year's Day 2015 Google celebrates the first day of 2015 with a Doodle
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Google Doodles New Year's Eve 2014 Google's Doodle celebrating the end of 2014
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Google Doodles The 2014 Holidays Google celebrates the holiday season with a third Doodle
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Google Doodles The 2014 Holidays Google marks the holiday season
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Google Doodles Wassily Kandinsky's 148th Birthday A Google Doodle celebrating the artist Wassily Kandinsky's 148th Birthday
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Google Doodles Winter Solstice 2014 Google's Doodle marking the winter solstice
Google Doodles The birth of psychoanalyst Anna Freud A Google Doodle celebrating the birthday of child psychoanalyst Anna Freud
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Google Doodles The Rosetta mission's Philae probe lands on comet A Google Doodle celebrating the historic landing of the Rosetta space probe on a comet
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Google Doodles St Andrews Day 30 November 2014: The Google Doodle to celebrate St Andrews Day 2014
Google Doodles Fall of the Berlin Wall 9 November 2014: Google Doodle commemorates fall of the Berlin Wall, 25 years on
Google Doodles Halloween 2014 31 October 2014: Google's Doodle celebrating Halloween 2014
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Google Doodles Niki de Saint Phalle's 84th Birthday 29 October 2014: Google Doodle celebrates Niki de Saint Phalle's 84th Birthday
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Google Doodles Dr Jonas Salk's 100th birthday 28 October 2014: Google 's doodle celebrating the birthday of scientist Dr Jonas Salk
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Google Doodles Google's 16th birthday 27 September 2014: Google 's playful doodle celebrating its 16th birthday
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Google Doodles Routemaster bus 24 September 2014: Google Doodle marks 60th anniversary of the unveiling of the first Routemaster bus
Google Doodles Autumn Equinox The Google Doodle celebrating the start of the first day of autumn, 2014.
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Google Doodles Dianna Wynne Jones The Google Doodle marking the birthday of Diana Wynne Jones
Google Doodles Sheridan Le Fanu Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu on 28 August 2014
Google Doodles Google Doodle The Google Doodle marking the Perseid Meteor Shower
Google Doodles Commonwealth Games The Google Doodle commemorating the start of the Commonwealth Games 2014
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The interactive Doodle celebrating the 180th birthday of philosopher John Venn - inventor of the Venn diagram
Google Doodles Nelson Mandela 18 July 2014: Google celebrates the life of Nelson Mandela with interactive Doddle
Google Doodles Fifa World Cup 2014 19 June 2014: Google celebrates the eighth day of the 2014 world cup with an animated doodle
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Google Doodles Fifa World Cup 2014 18 June 2014: Google has marked the seventh day of the 2014 World Cup with a doodle highlighting Brazil's favelas
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Google Doodles Fifa World Cup 2014 17 June 2014: Google celebrates the 2014 World Cup match between Belgium vs Algeria with a doodle honouring Paul the Octopus
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Google Doodles Fifa World Cup 2014 13 June 2014: Google celebrated the opening ceremony of a Fifa World Cup 2014 with a second doodle
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Google Doodles Fifa World Cup 2014 A global Google Doodle released on 12 June 2014, to celebrate the start of the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil
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Google Doodles Honinbo Shusaku's 185th birthday 6 June 2014: Google Doodle celebrates the 185th birthday of professional Go player Honinbo Shusaku
Google Doodles European elections 22 May 2014: Google Doodle marks elections to the European Parliament
Google Doodles Mary Anning's 215th birthday 21 May 2014: Google Doodle marks Mary Anning's 215th birthday
Google Doodles Maria Gaetana Agnesi's 296th birthday Google marks anniversary of mathematician with Witch of Agnesi curve Doodle
Google Doodles Cinecittà studios 77th anniversary The sprawling Cinecittà film studio in Rome is perhaps most famous for its association with the flamboyant director Federico Fellini
Google Doodles Charlotte Brontë's birthday 21 April 2014: Charlotte Brontë, the English novelist, poet and the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who lived into adulthood, has been celebrated with a Google Doodle depicting her most famous novel, Jane Eyre.
Google Doodles 63rd anniversary of the Peak District National Park 17 April 2014: Google Doodle celebrates the 63rd anniversary of the Peak District National Park with a depiction of the sun rising behind the 'Salt Cellar' rock formation
Google Doodles Twenty20 cricket World Cup 6 April 2014: Google's colourful Doodle celebrating the Twenty20 cricket World Cup final between India and Sri Lanka
Google Doodles Dorothy Height's 102nd birthday 24 March: The US Google Doodle celebrating Dorothy Height's 102nd birthday on 24 March, 2014.
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Google Doodles Ayrton Senna's 54th birthday 21 March: Google has celebrated what would have been Ayrton Senna's 54th birthday
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Google Doodles The spring equinox 2014 20 March: Google celebrates the spring equinox, with a colourful, animated Doodle
Google Doodles International Women's day 2014 8 March 2014: Google celebrates International Women's Day
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Google Doodles Elizabeth Browning's 208th birthday 6 March 2014: Google Doodle marks the Victorian poet's anniversary
Google Doodles Valentines' Day 2014 14 February 2014: Search engine's Google's Doodle on Valentines' Day 2014, which allows users to send loved ones personalised cupcakes over the internet.
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Google Doodles Winter Olympics 2014 7 February 2014: Google's latest Doodle celebrates the start of the Sochi Games
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Google Doodles Chinese New Year Happy New Year! Chinese New Year has been celebrated with a Google Doodle
Google Doodles Eugene Viollet-le-Duc Google's latest doodle celebrates the French gothic revival architect, building restorer and theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
Google Doodles Dian Fossey 16 January 2014: The Google Doodle celebrating Dian Fossey's 82nd birthday
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Google Doodles British Museum 15 January 2014: Google celebrates the 255th anniversary of the British Museum with a Doodle
Google Doodles Simone de Beauvoir 9 January 2014: Google Doodle marks the 106th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir, depicting the French writer and philosopher set against a Parisian backdrop
Google Doodles Zora Neale Hurston 7 January 2014: Google's Doodle celebrates Zora Neale Hurston's life
31 December 2013: Google Doodle celebrates New Year's Eve with animation of numbers dancing as 2014 waits patiently in the dark
26 December 2013: Google celebrates Boxing Day with a Doodle that depicts an isolated house surrounded by snow, with a star-lit sky as the backdrop
Google Doodles Christmas Day 25 December 2013: Google has marked Christmas Day with a Doodle and the message 'Tis the season!'
Google Doodles Christmas Eve 24 December 2013: Google has marked Christmas Eve with a Doodle and the message 'Happy Holidays'
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Google Doodles Winter Solstice 21 December 2013: Today is officially the first day of this chilly season - or as it is more commonly known, the Winter Solstice. Over the next 24 hours we will see the year's shortest day and longest night. Thousands of druids are expected to gather at Stonehenge in Somerset to celebrate the event and witness the sun rising in alignment with the site's ancient stones
Google Doodles Grace Hooper 9 December 2013: The American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral has been honoured with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 107th birthday. She is probably most celebrated for her pioneering work in the development of COBOL, one of the first programming languages that could work independently of a particular machine, but we should perhaps thank her most for her popularisation of the word 'debugging' - dating from an anecdote when an actual moth was found in a computer she was working on, and that was slowing down its processes.
Google Doodles Carlos Juan Finlay 3 December 2013: The Cuban physician Carlos J Finlay has been honoured with a Google Doodle on the 180th anniversary of his birth. Finlay is credited with discovering that yellow fever is transmitted via infected mosquitos, though his ideas were ignored for 20 years after first being published in 1886.
Google Doodles Maria Callas 2 December 2013: Today marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of the iconic Greek soprano Maria Callas. Callas was born on 2 December 1923, in New York and made her debut in Boccaccio for the Royal Opera of Athens, and took her first major role in Tosca. Her Italian opera debut took place at the Verona Arena in 1947 and her American one in 1954. Callas died in Paris in 1977.
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Google Doodles St. Andrew's Day 30 November 2013: Google Doodle celebrates St Andrew's Day. The middle part of the search engine's logo has been replaced with a Scottish scene showing a loch, a fisherman and various landmark structures, as well as three fluttering Saltires blowing in the wind
Google Doodles Thanksgiving 28 November 2013: Today's Google Doodle marks Thanksgiving with an animated film showing an array of woodland creatures sitting down together for a feast. The traditional holiday is celebrated by millions on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving commemorates a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1621 and is marked by religious observances and 'giving thanks' as people prepare and eat a meal together.
Google Doodles Doctor Who 50th Anniversary 22 November 2013: Today's Google Doodle celebrates 50 years of Doctor Who. The doodle features images of all 11 versions of the Doctor and a game in which users can choose which Time Lord they want to be. It is then a race against the clock to make it across the room and outwit a Dalek to get to safety. There are a whole host of events taking place to celebrate the anniversary, as well as a special episode, The Day of the Doctor. Doctor Who first aired back in 1963 with an adventure that saw the Time Lord and companions sent back in time to the stone age and captured by cave men.
Google Doodles Hermann Rorschach 7 November 2013: Google marks Hermann Rorschach’s 129th birthday with doodle celebrating Freudian psychoanalyst’s famous inkblot test. The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while disembodied hands hold a piece of paper containing a simple inkblot in front of the screen. Users are then encouraged to share their interpretation of the inkblot on Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter.
Google Doodles Raymond Loewy 5 November 2013: Raymond Loewy is widely considered to have revolutionized his industry creating product designs for everything from refrigerators to cars and spacecraft. He also designed logos for Exxon and Shell as well as the former BP logos. He was also responsible for the design of the Coca-Cola vending machines and the iconic Greyhound Scenicruiser bus.
31 October 2013: It's Halloween and Google has marked the occasion with a spooky witch-themed Doodle to get us in the mood. The interactive Doodle starts off with a green-faced witch, complete with a menacing grin, a large hooked nose and moving eyes, flicking through an oversized witchcraft book entitled 'Google'. When users click the glowing play button a gong sounds and the witch starts stirring a cauldron containing a bubbling green brew. Spooky sound effects complete the haunted scene. The user is then invited to add ingredients to her green concoction and can choose from a bone, a skull, an apple or a bottle of blue potion.
28 October 2013: Google has marked the anniversary of the birth of American costume designer Edith Head, won eight Academy Awards over her career, more than any other woman, and was nominated 40 times. Her most famous designs included Bette Davis's evening gown for 'All About Eve' and Audrey Hepburn’s shoulder-tied boatneck in 'Sabrina'.
Google Doodles First parachute jump 22 October 2013: Google has created a ‘doodle’ to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the world’s first parachute jump. On October 22 1797 28-year-old Andre-Jacque Garnerin made a daring leap at Parc Monceau in Paris. He launched himself from a balloon using a seven-metre silk parachute resembling an umbrella.
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Google Doodles Friedrich Nietzsche 15 October 2013: Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 169th birthday of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, most famous for his declaration "God is dead" and rejection of religion, but whose shadow inside and outside of philosophy extends over much of the Twentieth Century. Nietzsche's most influential works include Beyond Good and Evil, The Birth of Tragedy and The Will to Power.
Google Doodles William John Swainson 8 October 2013: Google has marked the birthday of the ornithologist and renowned natural history artist William John Swainson with a Doodle featuring some of his intricate illustrations. It was in 1820 that Swainson became the first illustrator and naturalist to use the technique of lithography, in his book Zoological Illustrations. The Google Doodle features an image of a Moluccan King Parrot from this book.
Google Doodles Google's 15 birthday Google is celebrating its own 15th birthday with an interactive doodle based on a Mexican piñata. The doodle comes in the form of a basic video game that challenges the user to release as many virtual sweets as possible by thwacking a star-shaped piñata with a stick.
Google Doodles Foucault pendulum 17 September 2013: The interactive doodle is based on the Foucault pendulum - a radical device he created to demonstrate the effect of the earth’s rotation - and allows users to manipulate the swinging bob according to where on earth they happen to be. The Foucault pendulum is a simple device introduced in 1851 to confirm, in as basic a way as possible, the long-assumed theory that the earth rotated.
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Earlier this month, Google revamped their logo with perhaps the most dramatic change in its history. In a blog post, Google said the new logo reflected the fact that people interacted with the search engine across a range of platforms.
"This isn’t the first time we’ve changed our look and it probably won’t be the last, but we think today’s update is a great reflection of all the ways Google works for you," the blog post read .
The change divided opinion with many branding it unnecessary, childish and lacking impact.
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