Why is there so much confusion about the date of the birthday of Google? – BBC World

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Image caption Google is congratulated itself the birthday with this “doodle” of the drawer of Disney Gerben Steenks.

This Tuesday, Google has dedicated the “doodle” itself. It is his 18th birthday and wants to celebrate by everything high.

Maybe it’s conceited to congratulate the birthday itself, but Google will have more than enough reasons to do so.

Handles more than 100,000 million searches a month, has offices in more than 40 countries and is the most popular search engine in the world.

it All started in a garage in California (USA), when the students of the University of Stanford Larry Page and Sergey Brin -today, two of the richest men in the world – had the bold idea of “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”.

Congrats, Google! Since you are the age of majority in many countries and you have become a technological giant.

But, stop with the congratulations for a moment.

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Image caption Is this Tuesday really the birthday of Google?

Are you sure that today is your birthday? Is at least the sixth time you’ve done 18.

And you have come to celebrate your anniversary in four different dates.

That isn’t very own a tool that is dedicated to organize.

why so much confusion?

If we were to take into account the date on which the company was registered on the internet, Google he would have been 19 years old on September 15 of this year.

But, if you really are 18 (such as claims, at least today) then there are several dates that conmemorarían your anniversary.

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Image caption Larry Page (left) and Sergey Brin (right), founders of Google, met in 1995.

as the company says in its blog, in August 1998 Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, wrote a check to Page and Brin for a value of US$ 100,000 “in favor of an entity that did not yet exist: a company called Google Inc“.

And, the following month, both started the paperwork to form the company in California, 4th of September, and opened a bank account to deposit the cheque.

That could be the official date is more logical to celebrate the birthday.

But it is not the only one.

throughout the month of September of that year occurred some events that may well mark the celebration of the anniversary.

For example, fixing your place of work, in the garage of Susan Wojcicki -now head of Youtube-on the Avenue Santa Margarita in Menlo Park (California). Which happened, precisely, the day 27.

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Image caption Google is the search engine most used in the world, with 100,000 million searches per month.

Or the hiring of your first employee, Craig Silverstein, who worked at Google for more than 10 years to develop the algorithm data.

over the years, the company has chosen different days in September to celebrate your anniversary: the 7 (in 2004), the 8 (in 2003), 26 (in 2005) and 27 (since 2002).

And you could also take into account the date of birth of the first “doodle”, which was before the creation of Google, the 30 August 1998, at the festival of Burning Man in the Nevada desert (USA).

In 2013, Ryan Germick, the head of the team of “doodles” of Google, admitted that the company itself does not even know when it is your birthday.

“there are Still some divergent views about when to remove the candles, and the cake (birthday), but what is certain is that our first doodle was posted even before Google was officially created,” said Germick.

“But with a company that has the fun so embedded in his DNA, any excuse is good to celebrate a feast.”

In any case, what is certain is that most of the time Google chose the 27 of September to blow out the candles.

So, yes, now we can say: “Happy birthday, Google!”

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Image caption Google has celebrating its anniversary on the 27th of September since 2002, although not always chose that date.