Search engine giant Google celebrates its 22nd birthday today. Two PhD students from Stanford University in California, Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page, founded Google in 1998. The current CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc is Pichai Sundararajan, known as Sundar Pichai. , who is an Indian-American business executive.
Google doodle on 22nd birthday
Google has created a special doodle on this occasion. The Google Doodle from this very day features the ‘G’ logo sitting in front of a laptop making a video call. The video call is with the rest of the letters – OOGLE on the occasion of the celebration of Google’s 22nd birthday. There is also a piece of cake and gifts in Google Doodle. The Doodle rendering is quite appropriate for the current situation where most people have celebrated and are still celebrating via video calls due to the Coronavirus.
BackRub was the first name
Before officially launching Google, Page and Brin called it ‘BackRub’ in 1996, but it was later called Google. When the World Wide Web (www) was in its infancy, the two students came up with the idea of creating a system that would provide information from all over the world. This thought gave birth to Google.
Birthday dates
Google’s birthday has been changing year after year. By the year 2005, the global search engine giant celebrated its birthday on September 7. A few years later, Google celebrated its birthday on September 8 and 26, and recently on September 27.
First doodle made in 1998
Google started scribbling from the very first year 1998 when it is officially launched. After doing the first few doodles, Google made it a tradition. Today, Google celebrates every special occasion through its doodles. Apart from this, Google has also deployed a special doodle team that only do this.
It works in more than 100 languages.
Today, Google is the world’s preferred search engine and works in more than 100 languages. Over the past 21 years, the company has reached new heights of progress and today is the world’s leading multinational technology company.
The search engine giant initially took a hit from search engines like Yahoo and Ask Creatures. However, Google improved its services over time and became the world’s preferred search engine. Google’s parent company is Alphabet Inc. and today it announced second quarter 2020 earnings with $38.3 billion in revenue.
Happy 22nd birthday, Google!
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Source: vtt.edu.vn