Lucille Ball 2011

Lucille Ball 2011

America still loves Lucille Ball and is celebrating her 100th birthday by remembering her. Google celebrated the occasion by dedicating an interactive doodle to the world famous comedian.

Visitors to Google.com are met with the boxy, vintage television set and a short video that features the word "Google" scrawled over a black-and-white heart that mimics the opening of Lucy. Following that, a play button pops up, inviting visitors to use the television's dial to choose from several iconic clips from the show, which ran on CBS from 1951 to 1957.

In a blog post, Google doodler Jennifer Hom explained: "Lucy's creativity, absurdity, and ever-changing facial expressions (especially when she was scarfing down candy, stomping on grapes, or touting a new energy drink) have brought joy and laughter to generations of viewers.

Five-time Emmy winner Lucille Ball died in 1989 in Los Angeles, but her legend lives on, most famously via her iconic TV show, I Love Lucy. The show ran from 1951 to 1957, but can be seen in syndication around the world, introducing generation after generation to Ball's comic stylings.

Google Doodles are now an established part of Internet culture.

Apart from the static image doodles Google also puts up animated and interactive doodles. Interactive and animated Google doodles have now become a regular feature on the Google home page.

Google has more than 50 domains in 50 different countries, and it creates Doodles specific to many of them.