Devanjana Mukherjee,Khabrimedia
The leading tech giant marks its 25th birth anniversary with the help of a quirky doodle.
Pic Courtsey: Social Media
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Peak in the Past
Initially termed as “Back Rub”, this science research project turned into search engine giving internet a new definition altogether. The founders met in Stanford University while pursuing doctorate degree and shared vision that was to enhance the accessibility of the World Wide Web. Both of them worked day-in and day-out from their dorm rooms and created a prototype for a better search engine. As the project progressed, they relocated their operation to their first office. Google Inc. was officially founded on September 27, 1998.
This American multinational tech giant’s name was inspired by the word ‘Googol’; a mathematical term that means a very large number. It is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes, while googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros. The name was brainstormed as ‘googolplex’ by a graduate student and Page’s friend Sean Anderson. Later it was shortened to ‘googol’.
Few words from the Founder
Since 1998, Google has evolved thus adding new features, including changing its logo with the help of Doodle from time to time. According to the blog post, “Much has changed since 1998 — including our logo as seen in today’s Doodle — but the mission has remained the same: to organise 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.”
Meet the Doodler
Google’s doodle was created by Dennis Hwang, an intern at the company in the year 2000. He was asked to produce a doodle for Bastille Day, which later on was well received by the audience. Since then, doodle became a pivotal feature thus creating more than 5000 doodles till date.
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Apart from its distinguished Doodle and search engine platform, let’s take a look at other features as well.
- Google launched GMail in 2004 offering a staggering capacity of 1GB.
- It acquired Android in 2005 thus introducing Google Talk in our lives.
- The tech giant ventured into online video streaming platform thus acquired You Tube in 2006.
- In 2007, they expanded into online advertising by introducing Double Click to the world.
Launching its first android device T-Mobile G1 in the year 2008, they gifted us the Chrome web browser.
Other special features also includes, Maps, Translate, Drive, Photos, Calendar, Assistant, Earth, and much more. Earlier this month, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, shared his thoughts on the company’s future, particularly its opportunities with AI thus entering the competition with major powerhouses in almost every segment. Stating it as one of the biggest opportunity of the century, the next 25 years will demand more innovations and global impact to maintain its spot as world’s leading tech giant.
