Google turns 28 on September 27 — but its official birthday is three weeks earlier
The search giant marks its founding anniversary on September 27 each year, even though it was formally incorporated on September 4, 1998.
Google celebrated its 28th birthday on September 27, marking the occasion with a special Doodle that revived the company's rare 1997 beta logo, highlighting the quirky gap between its chosen anniversary and its legally registered founding date of September 4, 1998.
The September 27 date has become the company's conventional birthday over the years, though the reasons for preferring it over the incorporation date have never been definitively explained by the company. The discrepancy has long intrigued observers of Silicon Valley history.
What is beyond dispute is the scale of the journey. Google grew from a research project developed by two Stanford University students working out of a dormitory into one of the most valuable companies on the planet, now worth roughly four trillion dollars. The birthday Doodle, featuring the early beta-era branding, served as a rare visual reminder of how modest those origins truly were.
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