Where in the past Google proudly showed the size of the index, they don’t mention that anymore.īack then it was a big thing, though. Interestingly enough, the size of the index isn’t a ‘thing’ anymore these days. “For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our original index.” In a blog post on the Google blog, Software Engineer Anna Patterson announced: That of the new index.Īnd not just any index. So they decided to “attach” their birthday to a big announcement. A nice “PR trick” or “marketing trick” is to make things come together. In 2005 Google wanted to announce something big. The real answer seems to be in Marketing and PR. And today many sites are wondering about it again. Back in 2007, Danny Sullivan tried to answer the question but only got to “ Google’s birthday is whenever it wants to be”. It’s a bit of a mystery, not many sites actually seem to have the answer. Most businesses will see that as the ‘birth date’. Well actually, the right date is September 4th… at least, that’s the day Google filed for incorporation in California (according to their own history timeline). Which was a day later than when they celebrated a year earlier on September 6… What is the right date? To make it even stranger, in 2004 Google was 20 days earlier on September 7. But why did Google then celebrate their birthday on the 26th in 2005? It only started celebrating on the 27th the year after. So we could ‘assume’ that the 27th is the right day. You would say Google knows its own birthday. Because when is Google’s birthday really? On the 27th? Or was it the fourth? Or was it an entirely different day? With Google it’s not about years, it’s about days. In sports, with some athletes, their birthdate are a reason for discussion. Doesn’t Google know its own birthday? That doesn’t sound like an adult. There is some confusion about the date, though. In some countries, that means you’re an adult. Today marks the day that Google turns 18. Every year since 2002 they celebrate it with a doodle: It’s Google celebrating their own birthday. If you go to Google’s homepage today you will see a small celebration happening.

Google birthday today