Why Google Is Like a New Lover That Never Gets Old

Got your attention with that headline, didn't I? But that's exactly how I feel about Google these days. It surprises you, out of the blue, with a small trinket of its appreciation and you're just never expecting it and you're just always appreciative.

Today's small token is the Google Doodle of the 400th anniversary of the Galileo telescope. Galileo Galilei (I had no idea Galileo was his first name, actually, until I flipped through the related links tied to the Doodle) was an astronomer and philosopher from Pisa, Italy, who improved on an invention first developed by Hans Lipperhay a year earlier, in 1608.

As Mashable's Ben Parr writes, the quest was simple: Magnify the night sky, revealing celestial objects nobody could ever find or study before.

Wikipedia, of course, has the lowdown on everything you might want to know about how it all came about.

Thank you once again, Google, for making me a little smarter with your logo creations.

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