Google turns 23, celebrates birthday with cute animated doodle

Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday today (September 27). The search engine came up with an adorable doodle on its homepage to mark the occasion.

Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday today, September 27. To celebrate the milestone, the search engine came up with an adorable doodle on its homepage. The doodle features a two-tiered cake with a candle (substituting for the “L” in the doodle) and 23 inscribed on it. Happy 23rd Birthday, @Google!Starting as a prototype in the dorm rooms of two computer scientists, Google now answers billions of queries from users worldwide in 150+ languagesCelebrate with a slice of today's sweet #GoogleDoodle https://t.co/XkkC09Np2a pic.twitter.com/ELsdD8kb2t

Google was founded on September 4, 1998. The company, for the first seven years, celebrated its birth anniversary on the same date. However, later it was decided to shift the celebrations to September 27. Why, you may ask? Well, it was done to coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that this search engine was indexing.