Google Doodle Today: Google's 22nd Birthday 'G' Celebrates Birthday Quarantine During CoronaVirus (Covid-19)

 

If a "G" sits alone in front of the computer ...

This Sunday, Google users will find a logo on the start page of the search engine with which Google is celebrating itself. The occasion: Google's 22nd birthday. The search engine went online on September 27, 1998.

The letters “oo”, “g”, “l” and “e” in the “G” in the current doodle are only activated via video. In Corona times, the "G" apparently doesn't get a birthday visit.

It was born in a garage and today it is one of the most powerful companies in the world.

On September 27, 1998, an event occurred that would change the world. That day Google was born.  Today, 22 years later, it is the most widely used search engine on the Internet, one of the companies with the highest valuation, it has various products among those most used by web and cell phone users on a daily basis, and it even became a verb: “ googling ”.

It was launched as a digital platform that specialized in topics related to the internet, software, electronic devices and other technologies. Today, the company is one of the most powerful on the planet.

21 years ago, two Stanford doctoral students, Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page, published a paper about the launch of a prototype of a "large-scale search engine" as part of a university project.

"We chose the name of our system, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100, and it fits well with our goal of building search engines on a large scale," the students wrote.

Beyond the search engine, the technology giant has products such as Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth, the YouTube video website and other web utilities such as Google Books or Google News, and Google Chrome. It also develops Android, the world's most widely used operating system for smartphones.

Initially, the original name of the search engine was BackRub. In 1997 the founders decided to change the name to Google, inspired by the mathematical term "gogol" which refers to the number 10 raised to the power of 100, in reference to their goal of organizing the enormous amount of information on the Web.

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