Google Celebrates 14th Birthday Today | Masthi Muzic Wishes Happy Birthday to GOOGLE

Google, the world’s leading search engine turns 14 today and in keeping with tradition, there’s a new doodle on the site to celebrate the happy event.

The Doodle shows a a chocolate cake with Google written on it. On top of the cake are 14 fluttering candles, that soon blow out. The candles then rearrange to form the number 14.

Screengrab of today’s Google Doodle.

Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built the search engine in 1996. Although, the company had filed for incorporation on 7 September, 1998, the official birthday is celebrated on 27  September. According to Wired, Google shifted ‘the date to 27 in recent times since it’s based on whenever people want to eat cake.’

The search engine has of course changed drastically in the past one year with the addition of Knowledge Graphs, birthday reminders, and of course search results from Google’s social network Google Plus.