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Google has unveiled its latest "doodle" on its homepage, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit. When users click on the Google logo, they are directed to a results page featuring the Aardman Animations characters created by Nick Park.
The characters Wallace and Gromit have become two of the most recognisable faces of modern British culture. They first appeared in A Grand Day Out 20 years ago, a 30-minute film where the pair travel to the moon to obtain cheese, Wallace's favourite food.
The pair have starred in a number of 30-minute films since, including The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and A Matter of Loaf and Death, and one feature-length film, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.
The homage to the characters is just the latest in a long line of Google doodles. Most recently, for Halloween, users were treated to a series of Hallowe'en 2009-themed images.
The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing of 1969, and the 50th of James Watson and Francis Crickâs discovery of the shape of DNA, are among other events marked by the "Google Doodle".
Michael Jackson, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Mahatma Gandhi and Confucius have all been recently honoured by Google's doodle designer Dennis Hwang, while the invention of the bar code was also commemorated.
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