On Wednesday, 7 Oct, Google has made people anxious and astonished by using Barcode image on home page. Google has represented itself with the help of barcode. That is because Google wants to explain the significance of this day. It was the 57th anniversary of bar code. You can say, Google are really a creative thinker.

Google, the giant search engine, is famous for its doodle on special occasions. Today Google is celebrating the patent anniversary of bar code and saying thanks to Barcodes. Barcode is something that accompanies us everywhere, everything that we buy, consume, read has a barcode inscribed on it. Not only this but also the tracking of item movement, even of rental cars, airline luggage, nuclear waste, mail, couriers and parcels also done with the help of barcodes. Even researchers also use tiny barcodes to be placed on to the insects to track their habits.

7th October is the day when barcode got patented in the year 1952. That means today barcode inventor got the sole rights to his invention.

Google has placed a Google doodle of barcode today. Barcode is a Code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser (released through a barcode reader) printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information.

A rectangular mark with black and white colored parallel lines having space in between is the Google logo of the day. Barcode can be read with the help of device that can scan bar codes on products and convert the information into a digital format for processing by a computer. This device is known as bar code reader.

Google usually amaze people by celebrating important days and reminding people about the significance of particular dates. On 2nd October Google has given homage to the ‘Father of the Nation’ Mohandas KaramChand Gandhi on his 140th birth anniversary.

People who have previously featured in Google doodle are, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Confucius, Luciano Pavarotti, Dr Seuss, Andy Warhol, Claude Money, Louis Braille, Pablo Picasso, Vinc ent van Gogh – and Michael Jackson.

Google has marked the 11th anniversary of the company by adding one more ‘l’ in the word google, i.e. ‘Googlle’ where double‘ll’ represented 11.