Hong Kong teenager's Google Doodle unveiled to millions on search site

If you boot up your computer today and search for something on the internet, the chances are you may stumble acorss the first ever 'Google Doodle' to be designed by a Hong Kong teenager.

Seventeen-year-old Wong Chiu-yung became the first person in the city to have their own design featured on Google's homepage after winning the first competition of its type to be held in the city.

For 24 hours Wong's environmental design, where the word Google is spelled out using flowers, trees and water, will grace the homepage in place of Google's four-coloured logo.

Google Doodles celebrate holidays, well-known birthdays, anniversaries, achievements and major events such as soccer's World Cup.

Some can be played as games, others are interactive animations, some even work as musical instruments.

The first doodle was a burning man stick figure in 1998. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page put the stick figure behind the second 'o' to let staff know they were at the Burning Man music and art festival in Nevada.

More than 2,000 doodles have been created since.