Google Doodle Celebrates Google's 14th Birthday

Today's a special day for Google which has become the default door to the vast world of the Internet. Not a single day passes by without each of us typing out '#-Link-Snipped-#' in our web browsers. Google's celebrating its birthday by putting up a nice animated doodle on their homepage - a chocolate cake with 14 candles. The candles are blown out and gradually turn into letters G O O G L E. We wonder who's got all the cake.

Google's Birthday Confusion

The exact birth date of Google was debated for long time. The company was founded on September 4, 1998 in Menlo Park California. The engineer duo Larry Page and Sergey Brin had began working on the Google Project, then called "Stanford Digital Library Project' aka SDLP in 1996. The project was basically a quest for realising the world wide web as a giant mathematical linked structure. While the original project resided on a subdomain viz. google.stanford.edu, Google.com was officially registered on September 15, 1997 and Google Inc. for formed on September 4, 1998. In 2005, Google adopted 27 September as its birth date.

Today, Google's world's #1 search engine that indexes and keeps track of billions of web pages every day. We wish Google & all of its engineering team a very happy birthday.