On New Year’s Eve 2021, Google unveiled a
doodle to prepare for 2022, with lots of candies, confetti and jacklights. The
doodle went live on Google’s homepage across multiple regions as soon as the
clock struck 12 on Thursday to show December 31, the last day of the year.

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The Google holiday doodle wears a giant
candy, captioned “2021”, that looks like saying goodbye to the year and is
ready to pop up as soon as the clock strikes midnight on December 31 to welcome
the New Year 2022. The other letters of the word ‘Google’ were also seen to be
colourfully decorated in the doodle with jacklights. In addition, there’s some
extra new year’s confetti to add to the celebratory mood of the doodle.

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This time, however, the Google Doodle has
not come up with many descriptions. Instead, the search engine is relying on
its users to appreciate the unambiguous and straightforward design of the
doodle to usher in the New Year. “That’s a wrap for 2021 – Happy New Year’s
Eve!” wrote Google on its doodles’ archive documenting the new design.

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It is evident from the archive that Google
invested in much more unique and elaborate designs for New Year’s Eve doodles
before this. However, the design remains quite plain this time.

The year 2021 was disrupted by the COVID-19
pandemic just like 2020. The pandemic resulted in millions of infections,
hospitalisations and deaths across the world. The coronavirus, first detected
two years ago in the Chinese city of Wuhan and was declared a global pandemic
in March 2020, has killed more than 5.4 million people, caused economic crises and
seen societies ricochet in and out of lockdowns.

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The year 2021 is ending on a sad note, too,
as many states across India have already reimposed restrictions as the omicron
variant of the coronavirus wreaking havoc on communities.