Google celebrates its 27th birthday with a Doodle that represents its first-ever logo from 1998

Whenever it comes to searching for a particular news or to get information related to any topic, the first thing that comes to our mind is, “Let’s Google it.” Maybe this is the reason that Google has become one of the most widely used search engines in the world.

From what started as a tiny startup in a California garage, it has now become a part of everyday life for almost all of us. Today marks the 27th birthday of Google.

Make the replies look like a party for Google turning 27 on the 27th 🎊 pic.twitter.com/jJkTEJYtIt

— Google India (@GoogleIndia) September 27, 2025

Are you also thinking why Google celebrates its birthday on 27th September when the company was officially incorporated on 4th September, 1998? Well, let’s go down memory lane to know how Google started and why its birthday is celebrated on 27th September.

History of Google

The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school, and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.

They disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year, they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.

Soon after, BackRub was renamed Google. The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki ( former CEO of YouTube).

In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly, hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, Yoshka. Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California.

Today, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and, of course, Google Search.

Why 27th September?

Now, coming to the question of why Google does not celebrate its birthday on 4th September? Google has been celebrating its birthday on the 27th since the mid-2000s. Reportedly, the date was chosen to commemorate the day when Google marked a major milestone in the size of its search index, symbolizing its rapid growth as a search engine.

Google Doodle

27 years later, still curious, still searching. Celebrating Google’s 27th birthday with today’s #GoogleDoodle 💙 pic.twitter.com/XaqM7SLyxj

— Google India (@GoogleIndia) September 27, 2025

The company released its first Doodle in 1998- a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. Over the years, Google has created doodles for everything- holidays, festivals, sports, historic figures, pop culture moments, and more. And now to celebrate its 27th birthday, the company has created a Doodle that represents Google’s first-ever logo (created in 1998).