September 27 isn't Google's birthday

New Delhi: There is a doodle on the Google home page that celebrates the company's 14th birthday. But the interesting fact is that September 27 isn't the search giant's birthday.

The selection of September 27 as Google's birthday seems to be a one of convenience than the actual date when the company was founded.

Google celebrated September 7 (the day when the company was incorporated) as its birthday till 2005.

In 2005 Google changed the date to September 27 to make it coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that the search engine was indexing.

For its 14th 'birthday' doodle, Google posted an animated doodle on its home page. The doodle shows a chocolate cake with 14 candles on it and the Google logo etched on the cake. As soon as the candles are blown out, the cake then gets covered in Google colours and the 14 candles rearrange themselves as tally marks to denote the number 14.

In 2011, when Google turned 13, Google doodled for itself a photograph that showed Google's 13th birthday celebrations. It had a cake on a table with 13 candles on it, and Google logo sat around the table in party hats while gifts and balloons added to the celebratory mood.

It's has been 14 years since 1998 when two Stanford university students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, got together to form a company that would change the face of the Internet, for ever.