Google celebrates its 25th birthday with a doodle

September 27, 2023

Search engine giant Google is celebrating its 25th birthday with a doodle. Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998 and now operates all over the world in over 100 languages. Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Google.

Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Google

  1. The name ‘Google’ is derived from the mathematical term ‘googol’ which is basically 1 with 100 zeros following it.
  2. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google ‘Backrub’.
  3. There’s a rotated version of Google known as ‘Google Mirror’, which shows everything in a mirrored avatar
  4. Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer

The birthday is celebrated with a doodle which shows a desktop computer that shows a Google search screen. The doodle has a timestamp also dated September 27, 1998. In 1998, Brin and Page published a paper about launching a “large-scale search engine prototype.” “We chose our system name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100, and fits well with our goal of building large-scale search engines.”

Here is a list of Google Products, which are vitally important in anyone’s daily life :

  •    Google Search Engine.
  •    Gmail
  •    Blogger
  •    Google Duo
  •    Youtube
  •    Hangout
  •    Drive
  •    Keep
  •    Google Analytics
  •    Webmaster[Console]
  •    Android
  •    Photos
  •    Translate
  •    Docs
  •    Earth
  •    Adwords
  •    Adsense
  •    Chrome
  •    Maps
  •    Messages
  •    Contacts
  •    Docs
  •    Sheets
  •    Google My Business
  •    Google Play Music
  •    Google Pay
  •    News
  •    Assistant
  •    Google Trends
  •    Google Tag Manager
  •    Google Survey
  •    Google Play
  •    Google Fit
  •    Google Alerts
  •    Gboard
  •    Chrome Web Store     

Know about Google present CEO Sundar Pichai:

Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive. He is an engineer and the chief executive officer of Google LLC.

Born: 10 June 1972, Madurai
Salary: US$1,881,066 (2018) US$1,333,557 (2017) US$199.7 million (2016)
Citizenship: American
Spouse: Anjali Pichai
Education: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2002)
Children: Kavya Pichai, Kiran Pichai