The world's largest search engine, Google, is marking its 25th birthday today with a unique doodle. Although Google Inc. was founded on September 4, the firm has been commemorating its birthday on September 27 for over ten years.
To commemorate this unique event, today's organization took a "walk down memory lane" and displayed several doodles.
The GIF accompanying today's Google Doodle changes "Google" into "G25gle." The IT company claimed it utilized today as a "time to reflect" while remaining focused on the future.
"Today's Doodle celebrates Google's 25th year. And while here at Google we're oriented towards the future, birthdays can also be a time to reflect. Let's take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago," Google wrote in its blog.
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Google turns 25 this month 🎉
— Google (@Google) September 5, 2023
CEO @SundarPichai looks back on the big questions that led us to where we are today, and what the next 25 years could look like ↓ https://t.co/gftKdUAE9x
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two PhD students at Stanford University studying computer science in the late 1990s, developed Google.
The two quickly discovered they had similar goals for the World Wide Web, including making it more user-friendly.
According to its blog, the duo put in much effort from their dorm rooms to create a prototype for a better search engine.
"As they made meaningful progress on the project, they moved the operation to Google's first office - a rented garage. On September 27, 1998, Google Inc. was officially born," it read.
The business further stated that although much has changed since 1998, its goal has not changed: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Google said in a statement that it was grateful to users for "evolving with us over the past 25 years" and added, "We can't wait to see where the future takes us, together."
Sundar Pichai, Google's current CEO, wrote a letter to commemorate the company's birthday last month. He reflected on the company's history, its contribution to technology transformation, and the future.
He appreciated the customers, staff members, and collaborators who contributed to Google's success. He also expressed gratitude for the commitment of both former and current Google employees and the ongoing challenge to innovate.
Mr. Pichai also emphasized the value of innovation and flexibility in his letter. He agreed that while the frontiers were continually being pushed, technology that was previously thought to be extraordinary suddenly became commonplace.
