Google flies the flag for Malaysian election with new doodle

Google Malaysia has created a doodle to commemorate the 14th Malaysian General Election (GE14). The landing page features the alphabets queueing up to vote, with majority of the letters holding ballot papers and a Malaysian flag, while the middle "G" has been replaced with a ballot box with a Malaysian flag on it.In a statement to A+M, Google Malaysia's spokesperson said the company created the doodle to celebrate this important day with fellow Malaysians. "There are no business objectives behind this doodle whatsoever. Selamat mengundi everyone!" the spokesperson added.It also created doodles for Malaysia's Independence Day in 2016 and 2015, as well as the South Korean elections in 2017 and the Philippines elections in 2016.This comes shortly after Twitter unveiled a new emoji for GE14, featuring a marked ballot above the Malaysian flag, which is shaped to resemble the ballot box. The emoji appears when the hashtags #MalaysiaElection, #GE14 or #PRU14 are used in the tweet, and is available until 16 May.Read also:MCMC to work with Twitter and Facebook to address election bot complaintsTwitter SEA MD: ‘The media has been a good friend, and also not a good friend.’Grab Malaysia offers discounted rides in conjunction with GE20th Century Fox banks on election fever in MY to promote Deadpool movieGrab gets users pumped up for the election with GE14 Voter’s KitBosch AA banks on election fever for new video featuring Kak GirlONE’s #ForwardTogether campaign encourages youths to get more involved in voting