We all need to practice self-care during the pandemic, so Google(गूगल) is taking some time to celebrate itself with a Google Doodle on its 22nd birthday.
If you Google things (or read this blog) very often, you've probably noticed that Google sometimes replaces the title on its search engine homepage with art, which usually represents a holiday, an event, or a person. The Google Doodle is as old as Google itself; in fact, the Google Doodle is technically a little older than Google as a company, depending on what you count as Google's official birthday. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin added a stick figure logo to the search engine's title on August 30, 1998, as a way to tell users that Page and Brin were off at the Burning Man Festival, so if the servers crashed, it would presumably have to wait until they came back.
Five days later, on September 4, 1998, Google officially incorporated. That milestone happened almost a year after Page and Brin registered the Google.com domain name on September 15, 1997. With those dates in mind, it's a little unclear why Google chose September 27, in particular, to send itself an animated birthday card. But the Google logo is definitely celebrating responsibly, with the other letters catching up with the cartoon capital "G" on (presumably) a Google Hangouts call.
Google posted its second Google Doodle on July 14, 2000, to celebrate Bastille Day. Sunday’s 22nd birthday celebration joins over 4,000 other works of art — some by Google employees and some by outside artists — in the Google Doodle archives.
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It’s Google’s 22nd birthday today. To mark the special occasion, the company has shared an animated doodle and it’s absolutely adorable.
The doodle shows the letter “G” engaged in a video call on a laptop. It’s wearing a birthday cap with gifts and a piece of cake kept in front of it. A pop up showing the laptop screen features the other letters of the name “Google” and they’re celebrating too. The representation of the event in the doddle is quite apt as in the present times, due to the pandemic, most people are celebrating their birthdays virtually.
The Image shows the Google doodle shared on September 27.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. There is a very interesting story behind the moniker which has now become an unofficial synonym for the word “search”. The name, as it turns out, is a play on a mathematical term.
As explained in a blog shared by Google, the name came into existence when American mathematician Edward Kasner and his young nephew Milton Sirotta took an “unassuming stroll” in the woods of New Jersey in 1920. Kasner, as the story goes, asked Sirotta to help him chose a name “for a mind-boggling number” - a 1 followed by 100 zeros. To which, Sirotta answered “a google.” Later, the name gained visibility in 1940 when Kasner used it in a book he co-authored. And today it’s a term almost everyone is aware of.
What’s even more interesting, and someone may be unaware of, is that the term “Google” is a part of Oxford English Dictionary. It was officially added to the list, as a verb, in the year 2006.
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