Google celebrates its 22 years of launch with an animated doodle.
New Delhi:
Happy Birthday, Google! Today, Google is celebrating its 22 years of launch with an animated doodle. Google being one of the most user-friendly search engines, it is also the most popular search engine created as a research project in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Today’s Google Doodle shows an animated G wearing a birthday hat. He is looking in a laptop while surrounded by a gift box, cake and box. The laptop screen shows G’s friends (the rest of Google’s alphabets) in four separate windows, in celebration mode.
The fun animation marks the site’s 22nd anniversary. The official Google Doodle page shares the story of Google’s founders and how they trace their roots to the sunny campus of Stanford University.
The partnership between Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin has its roots in the sunny campus of Stanford University. As graduate students, the duo set out to improve the way people interacted with the wealth of information on the World Wide Web. In 1998, Google was born, and the rest is history.
The now world famous nickname is a play on a mathematical term that emerged from an unpretentious walk around 1920. While walking through the woods of New Jersey, the American mathematician Edward Kasner asked his young nephew Milton Sirotta to help her choose a name for a mind-boggling number: a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Milton’s response? A googol! The term gained widespread visibility twenty years later with its inclusion in a 1940 book co-authored by Kasner and titled “Mathematics and the Imagination”.
In 2006, the word ‘Google’ was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb, so if you want to know more about the actual size of a googol, just search it on Google!
