Google launched Live India Election Result map and special Doodle

For most awaited result day of 16th national election of India, Google celebrated day of 16th May with special Google Doodle and also launched a dedicated Live Election Results Map of India where you can see results status of constituencies /candidates or party status live district wise.

The map is works like a regular Google map with difference that every district in states of India is color coded that and each color resembles a party you can see the vote counting status of each state live. You can zoom in or zoom out to go from states to district level viewing of map.

You can even enter your area pin code to see status of voting result in your area.

Beside this Google also launched page for Live YouTube coverage where you see various YouTube partners or different news channels covering live election results.

Election results are by Nielsen India as provided by the Election Commission of India and candidate information provided by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). Constituency shapes over google map are provided by Empowering India.



Google has also celebrated the election result day by launching a different Google doodle for Google India home page where doodle shows the 'Google' text but the alphabet 'L' is shown as voters hand with index finger inked that symbolize right to vote.

A recent study has revealed that Google may have power over Indian election results. The study conducted by American Institute for Behavioural Research and Technology (AIBRT), over 2,000 undecided Indian voters showed that about 12% of them could be ‘pushed’ towards a candidate based on better visibility on Google search rankings. The study found that Google had the power to fix the elections to a certain extent.

Doodle 4 Google India 2013 ends with Winner from Pune School

Today the Google doodle displayed on the Google India homepage is an art piece national winning entry of  Doodle 4 Google India 2013 contest, the doodle titled as - 'Sky's The Limit For Indian Women' is made by Gayatri Ketharaman who is student of The Bishop's Co-Ed School, Pune.

Doodle 4 Google is a thing called a logo which you see each time you visit google homepage. The  'Doodle 4 Google contest was started in last month and winner are announced today on day of Children's Day celebrated in India, the contest started off with slogan of - Celebrating Indian Women and was open to all students attending a school in India.

There are also 3 more winners in 3 groups ranging from class 1-10. In year 2012, the Doodle4Google winner was Arun Kumar Yadav, a class 9 Kendriya Vidyalaya student from Chandigarh. The 2012 Doodle 4 Google winning entry that featured on the Google India homepage on November 14 last year and was titled 'India - A Prism of Multiplicity'.

The contest national winner Doodle is displayed on the Google India homepage (www.google.co.in) as the official Google logo on Children’s Day - November 14th of each year.

The winners were decided based on the doodle that gets the most public votes in each group. Regional winners were also announced in every category, whose doodle was put up on the site for online voting. After the online vote, three winners was announced in each of the three groups at the final award ceremony held in Delhi on 12th November 2013.

The prizes for given for winners is Certificate along with Google Goodie Bag. Other 3 winners' doodle logo of this contest in three groups are: