Google is 25. It is celebrating with a doodle

 

  The topic of today's doodle, which celebrates the search engine giant's 25th birthday, is "Walk down memory lane." The word "Google" has the letters "oo" substituted with the number "25" in the doodle.

 

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google's co-founders, unveiled the company on September 27, 1998.

 

The company has over the years featured various drawings on its birthday as part of a "walk down memory lane." The most recent one includes a GIF that changes "Google" into "G25gle" to honor the 25th anniversary. Confetti appears on the website after clicking the logo.

"In the late 1990s, doctoral students Sergey Brin and Larry Page met by chance in Stanford University's computer science program." They quickly realized they had similar goals: to make the World Wide Web more accessible. "From their dorm rooms, the pair worked tirelessly to develop a prototype for a better search engine," Google wrote in an article accompanying the doodle."As the project progressed, they relocated the operation to Google's first office, a rented garage." Google Inc. was founded on September 27, 1998," it stated.

Google has altered the way people use the World Wide Web in the 25 years since. The number of monthly unique visits to Google topped one billion for the first time in May 2011. There has been no turning back for Google since then.

Recognizing the enormous change that has occurred since 1998, Google has stated that their "mission has remained the same: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Being grateful to its users, it thanked them for evolving with them over the past 25 years. "We can't wait to see where the future takes us, together," it stated.