Google celebrated its 11th birthday with a Google doodles — a special Google logo that it puts on its homepage to mark the occasion. The special logo contains an extra “l” to form “11″ which represents the search engine giant’s 11 years of existence.
There is some confusion about the exact date on which the company was founded. Last year, Google celebrated its 10th birthday on September 2nd. Google was incorporated as a company on 4 September 1998.
Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page when they were PhD students at Stanford. The domain Google.com was registered on September 15, so they can celebrate their birthday on that day as well.
It seems that Google didn’t get time to celebrate its own birthday as it was busy changing doodles to mark other important days. Google’s name comes from a misspelling of the word “googol” which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
Earlier, Google used a logo depicting a flying saucer sucking the “o” to mark the 143rd birthday of HG Wells, the author of the famous War of the Worlds. Last month Google used a telescopic doodle to mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s revolutionary telescope.