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Google Marks 27th Birthday With Throwback Doodle to 1998 Logo

The vintage wordmark anchors a one-day Doodle that links the company’s origins to a push toward its newest AI tools.

The vintage Google Doodle appearing on the homepage on 27 September celebrates the 27th birthday of the company.
An employee at Google Bengaluru campus shared pictures from the company’s birthday bash.
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Overview

  • The homepage art revives Google's first-ever 1998 logo, with a prompt to explore the company's newest AI innovation, per the Doodle description.
  • Although officially incorporated on September 4, 1998, Google has long celebrated on September 27, a tradition rooted in early Doodle history and indexing milestones.
  • The birthday Doodle appeared in multiple countries, and Google India highlighted the milestone on X with images of the original homepage.
  • Coverage retraces the journey from a Stanford research project and Menlo Park garage to products including Search, Gmail, YouTube, Android, Maps and AI platforms such as Gemini.
  • Employees marked the anniversary internally, including a Bengaluru campus celebration shared in photos by project management apprentice Keerthana M on LinkedIn.