Google’s 27th Birthday & Doodles!
Did you know Google celebrated its 27th birthday this September 2025?
This Year, Google celebrated its 27th birthday with a nostalgic 1998 original logo, the first ever logo they created.
This logo represents their transformation journey from a scrappy garage to a global tech giant.
Do you know the History of Google?
The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school, and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around the school.
By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year, they had a good partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to access individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.
After some time, BackRub was renamed Google. Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of the academic community and Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born.
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With this investment, the new team moved from the dorms to their first office, a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan. With clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet, they started to rise.
How did Google get its Name?
Google got its name from an incident involving a misspelling of the mathematical term “googol” meaning 1 followed by 100. They selected this name because it represented Larry and Sergey’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Doodles Through the Years
The evolution of Doodles mirrors Google’s growth,
- 1998: The first Doodle → published in 1998 as a quick way for Google founders to let people know they would be out of the office for Burning Man.
- 2000: The first Doodle series →The first Doodle series told a story of aliens encountering the Google logo and bringing it to Mars.
- 2000: Doodles go global → first international Doodle to celebrate Bastille Day in France.
- 2000: Let’s get moving →The Halloween Doodle The O’s disguised as Jack-o-lanterns featured some haunting flashing lights as well as Spider.
- 2005: Doodle for Google is born → Google invites K-12 students to try their hand at drawing a Doodle and compete to see it live on the Google homepage.
- 2010: The first interactive game Doodle → Pac-Man and the first interactive Doodle game experience! Play to see if you can get a high score!
- 2011: Lights, camera….Doodle! → Doodles evolved to full videos telling in-depth stories about their subjects. Our first-ever live-action Doodle celebrated Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday.
- 2012: Making Doodles multimedia → Life’s a garden To celebrate Earth Day 2012.
- 2018: The first VR/360 Doodle → In 2018, the first VR-enabled/360 video Doodle was created.
- 2019: The first AI-powered Doodle → The Doodle team partnered with the Google Magenta and Google PAIR teams to create the first AI-powered Doodle.
- 2021: The largest multiplayer Doodle ever → Doodles Champion Island brought people across the globe together to explore a world filled with sport mini-games, legendary opponents, dozens of daring side quests and more!
Is 27 September really Google's birthday?
Though Google was founded on September 4, 1998, the company celebrates its birthday on September 27, marking the day it first indexed a record number of web pages.
