Today's Google's fifteenth birthday. September marks 15 years since graduates Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up a small web crawler from a garage in Silicon Valley, which went onto become the world's biggest search engine.
The site was originally called BackRub, but was changed in 1997 to Google - a misspelling of the word googol which is a term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros.
There is a little confusion around when Google's official birthday is, but reports claim papers to incorporate the company were filed on September 4 1998. The company became incorporated three days later and the domain was registered on September 15.
Google, however, now officially celebrates the event with a Google Doodle on September 27.
The site is now the world's number one search engine and its name has become so synonymous with searching, it is now used as a verb in its own right in trhe English language.
Below the video of the interactive animated doodle that Google has created to celebrate the day.
(Information from MailOnLine)
Video Google 15th anniversary's doodle:
Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno.
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