Overview
- Google celebrated its 28th birthday on Sunday with a homepage Doodle that revisited an early pre‑launch logo from the company’s beta years.
- The company’s legal incorporation took place on September 4, 1998, after a pivotal $100,000 seed check from Andy Bechtolsheim in August 1998 enabled Page and Brin to formalize the venture.
- September 27 became the regular public birthday from 2006 after the company used a late‑September celebration in 2005 to mark a major expansion of its search index during competition with Yahoo.
- The Doodle tradition began in 1998 as a simple out‑of‑office note for Burning Man created by the founders and has since grown into an interactive, cultural feature on Google’s homepage.
- The recurring September 27 celebration functions as a symbolic marker of Google’s growth and scale and gives users a yearly touchpoint to explore the company’s history and Doodle archive.