Google celebrates 25th birthday

The search giant technology company, Google is celebrating its 25th birthday today, Wednesday with a special doodle and by thanking its users.

Google, in a statement titled ‘Google’s 25th birthday’ narrated the success story from its modest beginning in a garage to becoming a global brand.

Google was co-founder by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they met at a Stanford University dormitory in 1995.

The duo made the search engine as part of a PhD project in 1998, the tech company was initially called BackRub. The name Google came from a mathematics word called googol.

The American search engine company is a subsidiary of the holding firm Alphabet Inc.

The blog post read, “Today’s Doodle celebrates Google’s 25th year. And while here at Google we’re oriented towards the future,  birthdays can also be a time to reflect. Let’s take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago…

“By fate or luck, doctoral students Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in Stanford University’s computer science program in the late ‘90s. They quickly learned they shared a similar vision: make the World Wide Web a more accessible place. The pair worked tirelessly from their dorm rooms to develop a prototype for a better search engine. As they made meaningful progress on the project, they moved the operation to Google’s first office — a rented garage. On September 27, 1998, Google Inc. was officially born.

“Much has changed since 1998 — including our logo as seen in today’s Doodle — but the mission has remained the same: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Billions of people from all over the globe use Google to search, connect, work, play, and SO much more!

Thank you for evolving with us over the past 25 years. We can’t wait to see where the future takes us, together.”

Chinyere Treasure Mbadiwe
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