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We all need to practice self-care during the pandemic, which is why Google is taking time to celebrate with a Google Doodle on its 22nd birthday.
If you google things (or read this blog) very often, you’ve probably noticed that Google sometimes replaces the title on its search engine home page with art, which usually represents a holiday, event, or person. . The Google Doodle is as old as Google itself; in fact, the Google Doodle is technically a bit older than Google as a business, depending on what is considered Google’s official birthday. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin added a stick figure logo to the search engine title on August 30, 1998, as a way to tell users that Page and Brin were at the Burning Man Festival, so if the servers crashed, presumably it would. I have to wait until they come back.
Five days later, on September 4, 1998, Google was officially incorporated. That milestone occurred nearly a year after Page and Brin registered the domain name for Google.com on September 15, 1997. With those dates in mind, it’s unclear why Google chose September 27, in particular, for send yourself an animated birthday card. But the Google logo is definitely celebrating responsibly, with the other letters catching up to the cartoon capital “G” in (presumably) a Google Hangouts call.
Google published its second Google Doodle on July 14, 2000, to celebrate Bastille Day. Sunday’s 22nd birthday celebration joins more than 4,000 other artworks, some from Google employees and some from outside artists, in the Google Doodle archives.