Google.com has turned 18. On September 15, 1997 the domain google.com was registered. The name Google is a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
But Google doesn't mark this September 15 as its birthday.
Google celebrated September 7 (the day when the company was incorporated) as its birthday till 2005.
The Google doodle for its 4th birthday is dated September 27 but the 5th birthday doodle was on September 8, a year later it becomes September 7, followed by September 26 for its 7th birthday. From the 8th year onwards Google seems to have settled for September 27.
September 27 appears to have been chosen to coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that the search engine was indexing.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995 and by 1996 they had built a search engine called BackRub, that evolved into Google.
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The company that has a market cap of over $600 billion recently unveiled a surprise corporate reorganisation forming a new parent company dubbed Alphabet that will include the Internet search unit as one of several entities.
Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page has been designated as the new CEO of Alphabet while the reins at the Google search engine will be held by Sundar Pichai.
Google has also recently updated its logo for the fifth time since it opened to the public in 1998.
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