The video contains adorable and creative animations revealing the most popular searches went viral in these 20 years. Besides, to honor the founders of the company, there is a virtual street view of Susan’s Menlo Park garage, where the company was founded. The video takes you to the 20 years of memory lane showing the journey covered by the company with all the popular searches throughout these years. As a part of the celebration, Google added a new doodle on the home page linked to a video. Today, the company is celebrating the 20th Birthday of Google search. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on 4th September 1998, but the company celebrates its birthday on 27th September every year. Staff authors are listed here.Google is finally 20 years old, and the company celebrated its birthday with a number of surprises. Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Google says it continues to inch closer to its namesake (the number googol, which represents a “1” followed by one hundred zeros), serving more than 4.5 billion users in 160 countries. “This chance encounter was the happy surprise that started it all,” writes Google, connecting the birthday surprise spinner doodle to the company’s origin story. In Google’s blog post about the doodle, the company revisits how its co-founders met, explaining that Sergey Brin was “randomly” assigned to give Larry Page a tour of Standford University’s campus when Page first began his work toward a Ph.D. Google’s birthday doodle leads to a search for “ google birthday surprise spinner” and is currently being displayed on nearly all of Google’s international home pages. My kids, I’m sure, will be totally engrossed.) (I tried it, and I’m as awful at it as I am at every other video game I’ve ever played. Google has also released a new “ snake game” Easter egg - a digital game where you lead a snake around the screen to eat an apple.

Three spins leads to the ICC Championship interactive cricket game Google launched earlier this year, an Earth Day quiz launched in 2015 and Google’s solitaire game Easter egg rolled out in 2016. For its 19th birthday, Google has posted a birthday doodle that leads to a spinner prompting surprise searches for 19 of its past Easter egg games and quizzes.

Google doodle birthday spinner