Google celebrates 21st birthday with a Doodle
Google is legal! Well, to buy a beer anyway. When the legality of some of its other activities is a point of conflict among certain state and federal entities, the web giant is celebrating its 21st birthday on Friday with a retro Doodle.
The Doodle displays you what a typical Desktop Computer looked like 21 years ago when- Stanford Ph.D. scholar and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page published a paper called- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. The two layouts Google a prototype- "large scale search engine" that had a database of "at least 24 million pages."
"We choose our system name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100, and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines," the pair wrote in the paper's introduction.
In the 21 years since- Brin and Page outlined their concept for a search engine, -the company has grown up dramatically. Google's search engine now indexes hundreds of billions of webpages, but the company has gone from humble beginnings as a search engine to the most dominant force in advertising. Now Google has a parent company, -Alphabet with tentacles that reach almost everywhere from self-driving cars, bikes to its Android mobile software to the extension of life.
But do not look too closely at Google's birth certificate. The company has celebrated its birthday on Sept. 27 since 2006 -but the previous year, it celebrated its birthday on 26t Sept and in 2004 & 2003, the date was 7th Sept and 8th Sept, respectively. Google isn't even sure why this is, -especially since it was incorporated on 4th Sept 1998.
Regardless, Happy 21st Birthday to a company that- for better or worse, helped usher in the information age.
In the 21 years since- Brin and Page outlined their concept for a search engine, -the company has grown up dramatically. Google's search engine now indexes hundreds of billions of webpages, but the company has gone from humble beginnings as a search engine to the most dominant force in advertising. Now Google has a parent company, -Alphabet with tentacles that reach almost everywhere from self-driving cars, bikes to its Android mobile software to the extension of life.
But do not look too closely at Google's birth certificate. The company has celebrated its birthday on Sept. 27 since 2006 -but the previous year, it celebrated its birthday on 26t Sept and in 2004 & 2003, the date was 7th Sept and 8th Sept, respectively. Google isn't even sure why this is, -especially since it was incorporated on 4th Sept 1998.
Regardless, Happy 21st Birthday to a company that- for better or worse, helped usher in the information age.
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