Google's Birthday

 Do you know when Google is celebrating its birthday? The question may seem trivial, it is actually much more complicated than it seems. Because Google could celebrate his birthday on five different dates all located in September. These dates illustrate the controversy when the actual act of symbolic creation of the company. What are we to say that the question should probably be "when did Google really become Google"? The firm seems to have chosen one of the least symbolic dates on September 27th. And yet ...

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It's just that today Google is celebrating the 21st anniversary of its search engine, it's Google's birthday. And on this occasion, Google offers us a Doodle in image entitled "21st anniversary of Google" or we can clearly see the date in English "98 9 27" on what appears to be a photograph with the foreground, a computer of the time and its printer. This will surely bring some memories back to some, it is that year, in June, that Microsoft offers us the successor of Windows 95, with Windows 98, the second edition will be on sale in April 99 with the success that we know him.

Google could very well have never been born. Its creators, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, aged 23 and 24 at the time of their meeting in 1995, were practically at odds with everything, as we can learn from google.co.uk, where the company return to his own story. The first was then responsible for visiting the University of Stanford the second, came to a doctorate in computer science. Subsequently, the two students managed to work together, "in their university rooms".

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In fact according to an article in the British newspaper The Independent of 2013, Google would have decided the date of September 27 to troll Yahoo. The search engine competitor had indeed announced in 2005 to index more results than Google. The engineer Anna Patterson responded in the wake of a post on the blog of the Mountain View company in which she explains that her teams have worked hard to multiply the number of results of the firm by 1000.

And adds that from now on, the number of results indexed by Google would no longer be visible from the home page of the site. By choosing this date, Google symbolizes its entry into a kind of age of reason, and recalls that it is from this moment that the firm left all its competitors practically KO on the spot!

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