Google turns 14!

Google turns 14! To all the maps, androids, gmails, you tube, 

picasas, docs, drive, chromes, latitudes and so much more – 

Cheers for making our lives easier! Happy birthday.

This doodle shall be up in the GOOGLE homepage 

throughout the day. Google is popular and well known when 

it comes to doodles. The doodles are designed based on 

events ranging from news events, civic milestones, 

birthdays, death anniversaries and important dates in 

history. The recent ones of its hot stuff were the Olympic 

doodles which lets user to play their own animated Olympic 

game.

It was in the year 1998 when two Stanford university 

students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, got together to form 

this company which has now become an integrated part of 

our daily lives. Interestingly, the story behind ‘how it all 

began’ was as simple as a Library Management Project at 

Stanford.

Google History

Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry 

Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford working 

on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP’s 

goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, 

integrated and universal digital library.”