As the holidays wrap up and the New Year starts, millions of business owners are thinking about how they can grow in 2013. For many, this means getting found and connecting with customers on the web. That’s why we’re helping business owners create a list of New Year’s resolutions for 2013.

Just select your goals for the New Year and receive a customized list of resolutions with resources to help you stick to it: http://www.gybo.com/new-years

In Turkey today, a rockin' doodle for Barış Manço, singer and songwriter who would have been 70 today.

Yesterday, on the anniversary of the birth of the modern-day Internet, we shared a perspective from +vint cerf. Vint, currently VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, co-designed the TCP/IP protocol and is widely regarded as one of the fathers of the Internet. Read his blog post:

We've put together a collection of tips to help you keep your New Year's resolutions, from better health and finance to learning new things and traveling more: http://goo.gl/g5KeF

For our last doodle of the year, we're celebrating with some of the characters from previous 2012 doodles. Which ones can you spot? What was your favorite doodle this year? You can revisit them all at google.com/doodles. 

As you take a look back on 2012 with Google Zeitgeist, take a look forward into 2013 with our global resolutions page (http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/resolutions). There, you can add your own New Year’s resolution and see what people around the world are striving for in the new year. Filter through resolutions by category—from health to career, and everything in between. With the power of Google Translate, you can also explore what people across the globe are hoping for in 2013.

Visit the Zeitgeist resolutions page, watch the Zeitgeist video, then add your resolution and explore our collective hopes and aims for the coming year.

Friday in Spain, we shared a doodle for inventor and engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo. Torres Quevedo is credited with creating the world's first computer game—El Ajedrecista, an algorithmically powered machine that could automatically play a game of chess against a human opponent. He also designed the Whirlpool Aero Car, a cable car over the Niagara Whirlpool  originally powered by cows. Our doodle today nods to both of these inventions.

If Torres Quevedo's name sounds familiar to you, it might be because we also celebrated him earlier this year, on the anniversary of El Ajedrecista. Read more in our blog post from October: http://goo.gl/27P60

Happy holidays from Google!

Here's our happy holiday doodle. Hope you're all having a very merry day!