He'll lead the company along with a management team consisting of current Doodle employees.
There is also an apps menu consisting of a number of preloaded apps including a mail app, Doodle Jump, a crossword app, Hulu Plus, and something called "Angry Birds" that appears to be a bird-spotting companion.
It was spacious, consisting of two rooms, and had a determined-to-be-cheerful air, with an orange-painted wall and a whiteboard on which someone had doodled a picture of a raspberry plant over a diagram of a chemical compound.
Creating a picture generally consists of dragging and dropping images from the site's large collection of clip art, but users can also draw their own doodles and insert speech bubbles.
It consists of drawings, notes, doodles, newspaper clippings, ice cream wrappers, gallery invitations, airplane menus, photographs, even a telegram from his mother, Florence Kelly, which said, "phone me I cant get you" -- much of it inspiration for Mr. Kelly's paintings and sculptures.
Instrumentation consists of a piano.
Google has marked the last of the Chinese New Year celebrations with with a Doodle of the Lantern Festival.
The manuscript going on sale next week consists of four pages, and includes unused lines, what Sotheby's describes as "stray thoughts on American cultural imagery, and interesting doodles".
Google is celebrating the 129th birthday of Swiss Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach with a doodle of his famous inkblot tests.
The journalists who seized on it found he had drawn a doodle of a ballot box.
