Tech News Happy 28th Birthday, Google: The Search Box That Changed How Humanity Finds Answers

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Google turns 28 today. What began as a Stanford research project became one of the defining technologies of the internet, but its most enduring lesson may be simpler: extraordinary companies can begin with an ordinary question asked differently.

What to know

• Google officially celebrates its 28th birthday on September 27, 2026, with a birthday Doodle featuring a nostalgic early-days Google logo.
• Google Inc. was incorporated on September 4, 1998, but Google has celebrated September 27 as its birthday for more than a decade and acknowledges that its exact founding date is historically debatable.
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995 and later developed a search engine originally called Backrub that analyzed relationships between webpages.
• The original Google research system used the structure of hyperlinks to improve web search and was described by Brin and Page in their 1998 Stanford paper on a large-scale hypertextual search engine.
• Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim provided an early $100,000 investment in 1998, helping the project become Google Inc.
• Google's first office was a garage in Menlo Park owned by Susan Wojcicki, who later became Google's 16th employee and subsequently CEO of YouTube.

Google Turns 28: From a Stanford Project to the | Nexuswild

Google celebrates its 28th birthday on September 27, 2026. The story of Search, Page and Brin, the garage, innovation, AI and 28 years of curiosity.

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