Holi: Google celebrates festival of colours with special hidden feature on search results
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Your support makes all the difference.Google is celebrating the festival of Holi with a hidden doodle.
Unlike other celebrations on Google's homepage, you are unlikely to find or see the Holi feature unless you actively look for it.
But once you do, you can create an explosion of colours that will brighten up your search results page.
The update celebrates the ancient Indian festival of Holi. The festival of colour is traditionally celebrated by throwing coloured paints and powders at one another, creating a vibrant mix of colours.
Now Google is allowing people to do the same on their website, and is giving them an easy way to clean up, too.
The mode is activated by first searching for the word "Holi" on Google. You can do that on your phone or on desktop.
That will bring up a variety of results, but look for the "Knowledge Card", which aggregates Google's information about the festival.
Under that should be bowls of the kind of coloured powder used to celebrate the festival. Clicking those will cause a splat of colour to splash across the screen.
Once that's done, you can keep clicking as many times as you'd like, and will cover the screen with more paint as you do.
A little water droplet will appear at the top of the screen, and pressing that will clean all of that paint away for you to start again.
Holi runs from 9 March to 10 March, though it is unclear whether the Google feature will remain in place after the festival is over.
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