Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday today: But when did it really start?

But Google as a project began in January 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were both at Stanford university. However, January has never been considered an official birthday.

The company was officially incorporated on September 4, 1998. Of course, this means that September 4 should ideally be the birthday.  So why did September 27 get picked as the birthday? Well, September 27 was chosen to celebrate a new milestone in the number of pages that Google was indexing on the search engine.

Remember, when Google started, it was not the biggest or only search engine in the world. Yahoo was a lot bigger, but Google slowly and steadily came to dominate the entire market. For the past few years, Google has stuck with the September 27 date, and it will likely continue.

In the last few years, we’ve seen Google evolve beyond just being a search engine. There’s Gmail, Android, the Play Store, Google Assistant YouTube, Google Meet to name some of the most important products from the company. And yes, most of Google’s core products boast of more than a billion users each today, which shows just how dominant the company is, nearly 23 years after it first started.