Overview
- Google marked its 28th birthday with a nostalgic homepage Doodle on Sunday, September 27, 2026, using the company’s early logo and links to past Doodles.
- The firm’s legal incorporation occurred on September 4, 1998, after a $100,000 seed check from Sun Microsystems co‑founder Andy Bechtolsheim helped move the project out of Stanford dorms.
- The project that became Google began at Stanford in the mid‑1990s as BackRub and the Google.com domain was registered on September 15, 1997, so several founding dates appear in the record.
- Google used different September dates for early birthday Doodles before a 2005 announcement about a major expansion of its search index helped cement September 27 as the public celebration date from 2006 onward.
- The annual Doodle tradition has evolved from a simple 1998 out‑of‑office note into a tool for corporate memory that highlights brand nostalgia and frames the company’s growth instead of legal paperwork.