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Happy Birthday Google!
Search engine giant Google Inc is celebrating its 12th birthday today,
the 27th September 2010 and for those who do not know that, the new Google Doodle makes it clear! The Doodle for Google's 12th birthday is a painting of a cake by Los
Angeles artist Wayne Thiebaud. The birthday doodle also has a candle
that represents the letter 'L'. The artist Thiebaud's painting was used with the permission of Visual
Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA) New York.

The Google 12th birthday logo, the birthday cake was drawn by
American artist Wayne Thiebaud
Google was incorporated on September 4, 1998, though the 'official' date
may be September 7. Google.com was registered on September 15. In recent years, September 27 has become the established birthday
Google’s major milestones
On Google’s 12th birthday, a look at Google’s major milestones over the years.:
* 1997 - The domain Google.com was registered on Sept 15, 1997
*1998 -- Google named Top Search Engine*
*1999 -- Google changes its logo
*2000 -- Google supports 10 languages : Apart from English it
added support for 10 additional languages: French,
German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
*2001 -- Google Image Search, Eric Schmidt on board
*2002 -- AOL Partnership, Google Labs for public
*2003 -- Blogger.com, AdSense launched
*2004 -- Gmail, Orkut launched
*2005 -- Google Maps, Earth, Talk, Google Reader and more applications were launched
*2006 -- Google buys YouTube, releases Picasa Web Albums, Docs
*2007 -- Gmail for everyone, AdSense for Mobile made available.
*2008 -- DoubleClick acquired, Google Sites launched
*2009 -- New Google Favicon, Latitude service launched
*2010 -- Instant Search, Caffeine Web-indexing were released |
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