How is Google celebrating its 19th birthday?
Search engine Google is celebrating its 19th birthday on
September 27.
In 1997 Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met at
Stanford University and decided to come up with a system to organise the
world's information.
Setting up office in a garage they got to work.
The search engine is now has 4.5billion users in 160
countries.
Its birthday will be celebrated with a fun search spinner
Google Doodle that will link to 19 surprises the search engine has launched
over the years - as well as the new snake game.
How can you play the Google snake game?
As part of its birthday celebrations the search engine is
launching a version of the classic game snake.
The game will be available through its birthday surprise
spinner.
The spinner will be shown as a Google Doodle on the search
engine's homepage.
What is a Google Doodle?
In 1998, the search engine founders Larry and Sergey drew a
stick figure behind the second 'o' of Google as a message to that they were out
of office at the Burning Man festival and with that, Google Doodles were born.
The company decided that they should decorate the logo to
mark cultural moments and it soon became clear that users really enjoyed the
change to the Google homepage.
In that same year, a turkey was added to Thanksgiving and
two pumpkins appeared as the 'o's for Halloween the following year.
Now, there is a full team of doodlers, illustrators, graphic
designers, animators and classically trained artists who help create what you
see on those days.
This week a Google Doodle also celebrated the 2017 Autumn
Equinox, which marked the official ending of summer and the coming of autumn.
