Linked In An icon of the Linked In 'in' mark. Facebook An icon of the Facebook 'f' mark. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. was created on Octothrough a restructuring of Google and later became its parent company and that of its former subsidiaries as well.Calendar An icon of a desk calendar.

On December 3, 2019, Pichai became the CEO of Alphabet as well.Īlphabet Inc. Page, meanwhile, took over the same position at Alphabet Inc. Its current CEO is Sundar Pichai, who succeeded Page on October 24, 2015. The very first doodle was on the long-running “Burning Man” event in Black Rock City, Nevada.Ĭo-founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google is today the most widely-used search engine globally. The history of the doodle itself dates back to 1998, to a month before Google was founded. Though the company, for the first seven years, observed its birth anniversary on the said date, that year, it decided to shift the celebrations to September 27 to coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that this search engine was indexing. However, it is to be noted that technically, Google was founded on September 4, 1998.

Today's doodle, in reality, is an animated feature, as seen here. As seen in the image above, the google doodle features a cake with “23” written on top of it, with a birthday candle substituting for “L” in 'Google.' Google turns 23 (Image from Google homepage) Everyone's favourite search engine, Google, is celebrating its 23rd birthday on Monday, and the company made sure to mark the day with a doodle on its homepage.

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