2002 – Google’s First Birthday Doodle
Google came up with its first birthday doodle in September 27, 2002. The search engine giant turned the letter “L” into a 4 along with a virtual birthday cake accompanying it. During this year, Google introduced some major features, which include -
- Google News
- Google APIs
- Google Labs
- Opened its office space in Australia
2003 – Google Turns 5
Google celebrated its 5th birthday by presenting a doodle similar to its 4th birthday. The letter “L” was changed to 5 and had a cake along with a cap on top of the “O”. During this year, Google acquired Blogger.com and introduced Google AdSense.
2004 – Google Celebrates 5th Birthday
Google had too much of cake in its last 2 years of celebration and decided to go on a diet on its 6th birthday. The 6th anniversary of Google doodle saw balloons and the letter “O” replaced with 6. In this year, the company said that it sold 19,605,052 shares with an opening price of $85 per share. At present, Google’s stock price is $531. It introduced the following services -
- Orkut
- Gmail
- Google Official Blog
- 100+ Google
domains - SMS for mobile
- Google Desktop Search
- Google Scholar
- Google Book Search
- Opened a Tokyo R&D centre
2005 – Google Turns 7
Google certainly missed the cake in its 6th birthday and this time it decided not to go on a diet. The Google doodle included 7 pieces of cake along with the letter “L” replaced with 7. This was a big year for Google, as we saw several number services launched including Google Maps and Google Talk.
Services launched by Google during this year were -
- Google Maps
- Google Codes – code.google.com
- Google Local for mobile
- My Search History
- AdWords
- Blogger Mobile
- iGoogle
- Mobile Web Search
- Google Earth
- Maps API
- Google Talk
- Personalized Search
- Google Blog Search
- Google Reader
- Google Analytics
- Google Transit
- Gmail for mobile
2006 – Happy 8th Birthday
Google continued the tradition of celebrating its birthday with a Google Doodle and a cake. But this time it was a one-cupcake birthday celebration, with the second “G” turned into an 8. This was yet another big year for Google as it debuted more interesting new service -
- Picasa
- Chat with email
- Google News for mobile
- Google Finance
- Google Calendar
- Google Trends
- Picasa Web Albums
- Google Checkout
- Gmail in 40 languages
- Google Apps for Domain
- Free book downloads in Book Search
- Google News Archives
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- Google Custom Search
- Patent Search
- Acquired YouTube
2007 – Google Celebrates it 9th Birthday
Google’s 9th celebration doodle placed a piñata – type of container that is decorated, filled with toys and or candy. During this year, Google -
- Introduced Docs in 11 more languages
- Gmail was open to everyone
- Google Apps Premier Edition
- Blogger in 8 more languages
- Google Hot Trends
- Street Views for Maps
- Google Gears
- Maps on the iPhone
- YouTube in 9 more
domains - Google Apps in 28 languages
- Google Earth (and Sky)
- AdSense for Mobile
- Presentations in Google Docs
- Introduced Android
2008 – Happy 10th Birthday!
Celebrating its 10th decade, Google decided to create a doodle with its first logo when it was initially launched. During this year, the most notable event for Google was the launch of first the Android-based phone, T-Mobile G1. Along with that, Google also -
- Acquired DoubleClick
- Introduced Google Translate
- Friends Connect
- Google Health
- Gmail Labs
- Google Chrome browser
- New Picasa release
- Google Earth for iPhone
- Google Friend Connect
2009 – Google’s 11th Birthday
On its 11th birthday, Google kept its doodle quite simple as it just replaced the “L” with 11. However, there were no birthday cakes this time. Probably the doodle was made simple to indicate that it was just another “Google year” and it was working real hard to revolutionize the web.
In this year, Google announced Google Chrome OS for netbooks. It also made its debut on Twitter and tweeted its first message with a stream of 0s and 1s, which indicated “I’m feeling lucky”
On May 14th, Google was down for a few hours due to a simple traffic jam at an Asian data centre. This outage left 14% of its user base without Google’s several online services. However, Google apologizedfor the inconvenience caused in a blog post
In the same year, Google introduced the following services
- Google Voice
- Google Ventures
- Google India Elections Centre
- Google Labs redesign
- Sky Map for Android
- Preview of Google Wave
- Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk out of beta.
- Moon in Google Earth
2010 – Google Celebrates its 12th Birthday
By now, Google became a part of everyone’s life. The 12th Google birthday doodle had a candle which represents the “L” in the Google logo. The doodle is a painting by an American artist Wayne Thiebaud, who was known for painting images of cakes, ice creams, toys and candy.
In this year -
- Google introduced the Nexus One
- Allowed users to upload all types of files through Google Docs
- Google Buzz
- Acquired Picnik
- Google Apps marketplace
- Google Places
- Announced Google TV
- Priority Inbox for Gmail
- Voice Actions for Android
- Real-time Search
- Google Instant
- Project 10^100
- 3D trees arrive on Google Earth
- Google eBookstore
- Launched the Gingerbread version for Android
- Introduced Chrome OS netbooks
- Now Today 27 Sep 2011-Google Celebrates Its 13th Birthday with a new Doodle
One cannot imagine life without Google. Google search along with its several other awesome services has played an important role in our life. “Google” itself has become a synonym for “web search”, and no doubt it is the most preferred search engine.
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