Archive · 28 Sep 2026
Google Marks 28th Birthday With Special Early-Days Doodle
Google celebrated its 28th birthday with a special picture, called a Doodle, on its homepage.
The Doodle showed ideas from Google’s early days.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the search engine project while they were students living in dormitories.
Their first name for the project was BackRub.
They later chose the name Google because it sounded like “googol,” a very large number.
Google says it now makes many products used by billions of people.
Its services are available in more than 100 languages.
Google celebrates its birthday on September 27, although it used different dates in earlier years.
Google celebrated its 28th birthday on Sunday with a homepage Doodle recalling the company’s early days.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin began developing a search engine project called BackRub from their dorm rooms.
The name Google was chosen as a spelling of “googol,” reflecting the founders’ goal of building large-scale search engines.
Google says it now has more than 194,668 employees and offers hundreds of products, including Google Search, YouTube and Android.
Google’s birthday date has changed over time, moving from September 7 to September 8, September 26 and now September 27.
- Who
- Google, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
- What
- Google celebrated its 28th birthday with a special homepage Doodle.
- When
- On Sunday; Google currently observes its birthday on September 27.
- Where
- On Google’s homepage and across its services worldwide.
- Why
- To commemorate the search engine’s founding and development from the BackRub project into Google.
- Birthday
- 28th anniversary
- Current celebration date
- September 27
- Founders
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- Original project name
- BackRub
- Employees
- More than 194,668, according to Google’s website
- Language reach
- Available in more than 100 languages
- Annual search scale
- Trillions of search queries each year