Google long known for spicing up its home page with ‘doodle’ tributes for various events and famous people’s birthdays has continually used humor to soften its often maligned brand persona of being a monopoly… or should I say a Googlopoly! In the spirit of a New Year approaching, I thought it befitting to look back at Google’s TOP TEN 2009 artwork and congratulate the Grand-daddy of search engines for some doodles well done.