Is Google Really 10 Year Old? My 500th Post

Couple of hours back I read the Archit’s blog post which said Google is celebrating its 10th birthday this month. As usual I googled about this as I like following everything that is related to Google. I didn’t forget their 9th birthday. While I was searching for the right Google Doodle for there 10 birthday I stumbled on this article which doubted Google’s original age.

Even Google doubts the original date of its birthday and same is the reason why they changed the text on the page which talked about their birthday to:

Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake. For more on Google’s history:
http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

Before this the page used to quote:

Google’s official birthday is September 7, 1998. If Google were a person, it would have started elementary school late last summer (around August 19), and today it would have just finished the first grade. In other words, we’re just getting started. To discover more about Google’s history, please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html. To learn about our mission, please see http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/index.html

We really don’t need to celebrate their birthday on some specific day. 365 days might be less to praise them. 10 years ago they started by searching the Internet and today they are still busy searching the same Internet.

Last year my blog turned 9 months old when Google turned 9 years old. Today this post is number 500th in this blog and Google is 10 years old. Looks like this blog’s milestons are somehow related to Google News.

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