Google Birthday Story and logos

Google is celebrating its 10th birthday, not actually a day as Google itself isn’t sure about the exact day of its launch.In fact, knowing exactly when Google’s birthday is depends on your point of view. Some milestones to consider below, which make Google as old as 12 and as young as 9. Plus, more special Google birthday logos.

Google The 12 Year Old
January 1996

This is when Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on BackRub, what later become Google. Use this month, and Google is 12 years old.

Google The 10 Year Old
Sept. 15, 1997

This is when Google registered google.com because they both( Larry Page and Sergery Brin)  felt that BackRub needs a new name, and Google was derived from Googol which means a mathematical term with 1 followed by 100 zeros(A geeky decision right?)

Google The 9 Year Old
Sept. 7, 1998

This is when Google may have officially incorporated.

Google The 9 Year Old
Sept. 27, 1998 (Current Official Date)

Back in 2005, Google declared that Sept. 27 was its birthday. But wait — what happened with that Sept. 7 date? Well, in 2005, Yahoo came along and freaked Google out by announcing an index that was larger than Google’s. It had been ages since anyone did that.

Things got resolved by Google doing some PR. They announced that for their “birthday,” they’d gotten bigger — but were also dropping the count of pages from the home page, which helped (thankfully) defuse the size wars that often meant nothing about search quality.

It’s Their Party, They’ll Party When They Want To!

Google Birthday Logos

Google’s been putting them up consistently since 2002. The first year, it happened on September 27, then shifted to September 7, then back to September 27 from 2005 onward.

4th Birthday: 2002

Celebrated on September 27th, 2002.

5th Birthday: 2003

Celebrated on September 7th, 2003.

6th Birthday: 2004

Celebrated on September 7th, 2004.

7th Birthday: 2005

Celebrated on September 27th, 2005.

8th Birthday: 2006

Celebrated on September 27th, 2006.

9th Birthday: 2007:

10th Birthday 2008

Google Acquired Services

Here is the  list of acquisitions by Google.

A total of 51 companies have been acquired as of March 2008.

Google’s largest acquisition as of March 2008 is the purchase of DoubleClick, an online advertising company, for US$3.1 billion.

Acquisition date	Company	Derived services
12-Feb-01	Deja	Google Groups
20-Sep-01	Outride	Google Personalized Search
Feb-03	Pyra Labs	Blogger
Apr-03	Neotonic Software	Google Groups, Gmail
Apr-03	Applied Semantics	AdSense, AdWords
30-Sep-03	Kaltix	iGoogle
Oct-03	Sprinks(a division of Primedia)	AdSense, AdWords
10-Oct-03	Genius Labs	Blogger
10-May-04	Ignite Logic	Google Page Creator
23-Jun-04	BaiduA
13-Jul-04	Picasa	Picasa, Blogger
Sep-04	ZipDash	Google Ride Finder
Oct-04	Where2	Google Maps
27-Oct-04	Keyhole, Inc	Google Maps, Google Earth
28-Mar-05	Urchin Software Corporation	Google Analytics
12-May-05	Dodgeball	Google Mobile, Google SMS
Jul-05	Reqwireless	Google Mobile
7-Jul-05	Current Communications Group	Internet backbone
17-Aug-05	Android	Google Mobile, Google SMS
Nov-05	Skia	Picasa
17-Nov-05	Akwan Information Technologies	Internet backbone
20-Dec-05	AOLB
27-Dec-05	Phatbits	Google Desktop
31-Dec-05	allPAY GmbH	Google Mobile
31-Dec-05	bruNET GmbH	Google Mobile
17-Jan-06	dMarc Broadcasting	AdSense
14-Feb-06	Measure Map	Google Analytics
9-Mar-06	Upstartle	Google Documents
14-Mar-06	@Last Software	Google Sketchup
9-Apr-06	Orion	Google Search
1-Jun-06	2Web Technologies	Google Spreadsheet
15-Aug-06	Neven Vision	Google Maps
9-Oct-06	YouTube	Google Video
31-Oct-06	JotSpot	Google Sites
18-Dec-06	Endoxon	Google Maps
4-Jan-07	XunleiC
16-Feb-07	Adscape	AdSense
16-Mar-07	Trendalyzer	Google Analytics
17-Apr-07	Tonic Systems	Google Documents
19-Apr-07	Marratech	Google Talk
13-Apr-07	DoubleClick	AdSense
11-May-07	GreenBorder	Internal use
1-Jun-07	Panoramio	Blogger
Maps
3-Jun-07	FeedBurner	Google Reader
5-Jun-07	PeakStream	Server (computing)
19-Jun-07	Zenter	Google Documents
2-Jul-07	GrandCentral	Google Mobile
20-Jul-07	Image America	Google Maps
9-Jul-07	Postini	Gmail
27-Sep-07	Zingku	Google Mobile
9-Oct-07	Jaiku	Google Mobile