27th September 2016: Google Celebrating Its 18th Birthday

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Google, just a name that defines everything in today’s world. We cannot live without it if we don’t open Google at any single day for our queries. In 1998 two professional techies developed the search engine Google, we all are well aware about them. Their names are Larry Page and Sergery Brin.

There is some interesting fact which may or may we should know. Hahaha, Google not know the exact date when it really established, but who cares, in 2004 they celebrated their 6th Birthday on September 7.

Since 2006 they are celebrated on September 27th. Before that they celebrated it on 26th Sept

It doesn’t matter now, when was its birthday celebrated before. It is all about to know that we can google it to know the when is the birthday of Google. Great work done by Larry Page and Sergery Brin and their effort in making google the best search engine ever.

Last year Google become part of new ventures Alphabet.

There was the situation when Google was on sell in 1999.

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18 years after it was founded at Stanford University, Google is one of the world’s most powerful companies. It is second only to Apple in value, with a market capitalisation of $541bn (£417bn).

Page and Brin are ranked 12th and 13th on Forbes’ list of the richest people in the world, with net worths of $35.2bn and $34.4bn respectively.

The history of the Google Doodle

The Google Doodle has become a regular event, where the search engine will changes the logo on its homepage to celebrate holidays and the anniversaries of famous people and events. This is the story behind that tradition.

30 August 1998

First Google Doodle

The first Google Doodle is born, as founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page head to the Burning Man dadaist arts festival in the Nevada desert.

They insert the festival’s stick-man symbol behind the search engine’s logo as a jokey ‘out of office’ message.
2009

The Doodle team is created

Chief Doodler Ryan Germick

The Doodles are produced by a team that currently consists of 10 ‘Doodlers’, four engineers, two producers (and three dogs) led by designer Ryan Germick.

Based at Google HQ, California, they now produce around 400 Doodles a year, some 12 of which will be fully interactive.
4 January 2010

First animated Doodle

Google’s first animated logo comemmorates the birth anniversary of Sir Isaac Newton.
21 May 2010

First interactive Doodle

Google’s celebration of Pac Man’s creation becomes so wildly popular that the interactive logo is eventually given its own permanent page.
16 April 2011

First live-action Doodle

Google makes a silent movie in celebration of Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birth anniversary.
9 June 2011

Most popular Doodle to date

A playable guitar in celebration of Les Paul’s birthday becomes the most popular Doodle of all time.

Over 48 hours US users create 5.1 years of music – over 40 million tracks.
2014

D-Day Doodle blunder

Google apologises after a Google Doodle honouring a Japanese Go player was uploaded on the 70th anniversary of D-Day in error.

The picture was later taken down and replaced with a Remembering D-Day link, free from pictures, to the search engine’s Cultural Institute.

Peter Barron, the search engine’s director of communications, said: “Unfortunately a technical error crept in and for a short period this morning an international doodle also appeared. We’re sorry for the mistake, and we’re proud to honour those who took part in D-Day.”
2016

90th Anniversary of the first demonstration of Television

Google celebrates the 90th anniversary of the day “an eccentric Scottish inventor herded a small group of Royal Institution scientists into his London apartment and showed them the future.”

John Logie Baird, who’d been working on a “televisor” apparatus for much of his career, was the first person to publicly demonstrate the system that would spawn the modern-day television. His discovery sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and certified his legacy as one of the 20th century’s great innovators.