

Google shared a little of their history about how it all started In total there are 19 ways to stay distracted today. That one was a hit in May 2010.Īside from Pac-Man, there is also a Birthday Piñata, the Halloween Spells and an Earth Day quiz to name a few. We have just given the Google Doodle surprise spinner a whirl and were given Pac-Man to play. Google has launched their birthday celebrations in the most Google way ever! They have created a Google Doodle with a spinner that has some of the best Doodle games from over the years.Īll you need to do is click the play button on the doodle and then spin the brightly coloured wheel and wait to see which game you get.

After a few seconds, the bottom tier of the cake is revealed to have a goofy, cartoon face, as an arm reaches out to lift the top tier as if saying hello. The letter “l” is a flickering candle that sits atop a two-tiered cake, on which “23” is written.

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.
