The tic-tac-toe was introduced on a random mid-week last year. The Stick Cricket, for instance, was created during the times of ICC Champions Trophy. These games are not new to regular Google users. The Google birthday spinner doodle, an interactive spinning wheel, allows the user to play 19 games, including the classic Pac-Man, and Snake. But Google users were offered a surprise, 19 to be precise, on the search engine giant's 19th birthday. Named for the number “googol” (a 1 followed by one hundred zeroes), Google inches closer to its namesake each year, currently serving more than 4.5 billion users in 160 countries speaking 123 languages worldwide.We know Google celebrates birthdays and anniversaries with its special doodle. The two hunkered down in a garage - Google’s first office - and got to work.īillions of searches later, perhaps the happiest happenstance has been how Google has grown throughout the past 19 years. This chance encounter was the happy surprise that started it all.įrom there, the two came together with a common goal in mind: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, a mantra that would go on to become Google’s mission statement. Of all the students on campus, Google’s other co-founder, Sergey Brin, was randomly assigned to show Page around. In 1997, one of Google’s co-founders, Larry Page, had just arrived at Stanford University to pursue his P.h.D in computer science.

In fact, we wouldn’t be here without them. They say life is full of surprises, and Google’s history is chock-full of them.

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