Google Turns 22! Marks Day with a Special Doodle

The word 'Google' has become synonymous with the word 'search' for more than 15 years now, reports Times News Now. 

Back in 2002, the term 'Google' was chosen as the 'most useful word' by the American Dialect Society. Just four years later, it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary and to the eleventh edition of the Merrian-Webster Collegiate Dictionary the same year.

Fast forward to 2020, not a day when Internet users don't have Google stuff on their tablets, computers, or desktops. Fair to say, the search engine is the most common place to go for some kind of question.

The company, parented by Alphabet Inc., is doing its bit every day in honoring and remembering events and great personalities in human history through Google Doodles.

Yet it's a very special day today. On this day, twenty-two years ago, two Ph.D. students, Sergey Brin & Larry Page, came up with the concept of setting up a 'large-scale search engine.' Rest, as they say, is history.

Google Doodle today depicts an animated G wearing a birthday hat. It looks at a laptop as it's surrounded by a gift box, a cake, and a box of candies. The laptop screen shows G 's friends in four different windows, in complete celebration mode.

The fun animation marks the 22nd anniversary of the web. The official Google Doodle page shares the past of Google's founders and how they trace their origins back to the sunny Stanford University campus.

"As graduate students, the pair set out to improve the way people interacted with the wealth of information on the World Wide Web. In 1998, Google was born, and the rest is history," the page says about Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

“The now world-famous moniker is a play on a mathematical term that arose out of an unassuming stroll around the year 1920. While walking in the woods of New Jersey, American mathematician Edward Kasner asked his young nephew Milton Sirotta to help him choose a name for a mind-boggling number: a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Milton’s reply? A googol! The term gained widespread visibility twenty years later with its inclusion in a 1940 book Kasner co-authored called “Mathematics and the Imagination,” it adds.