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.
com homepage Doodle - a tradition that started in August 1998 to celebrate the Burning Man festival, days before the company was even founded - features the letters of “Google” covered in chocolate frosting and sprinkles. Even the name, “Google,” reflects that, as a play on the exceedingly large number, 10 100, which mathematicians refer to as a “googol.” Beyond that, Google’s headquarters, now known as the “Googleplex,” is a play on an even larger number, “googolplex,” which is 10 to the power of googol. The founders’ - Sergey Brin and Larry Page - goal was to build a search engine for the incredibly large set of information that the internet was rapidly becoming. While Google, as a company, was technically founded on Septemwith the search engine’s history actually dating back into 1996 - the company has, perhaps arbitrarily, chosen September 27 as the day to celebrate its birthday. Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday with an animated homepage Doodle that features a chocolate frosted cake.
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