Google Is 10 Years Old? Finding The Real Google Birthday

Sept. 28, 2010 - PRLog -- In fact, knowing exactly when Google’s birthday is depends on your point of view. Some milestones to consider below, which make Google as old as 12 and as young as 9. Plus, more special Google birthday logos.

Nice! My first review of Google back in 1998 made the timeline. If you click any link, more information shows up about it, with further references.

Looking for the timeline to clear up which exact day will be Google’s birthday? No such luck. "Google turns 10" is listed near the end but just brings up various posts from the Official Google Blog from this month.

Me, I’m still banking on Google celebrating this Saturday, Sept. 27 as its birthday. My past post, Google Is 10 Years Old? Finding The Real Google Birthday, explains how Google’s birthday has been something of a moving target that for the past few years has hit on Sept. 27 rather than Sept. 7 (a date that many media publications choose for their "Google’s 10" stories earlier this month.

Want in on the celebrations? Google’s inviting people to submit written stories (100 words or less) or videos of how they use Google.

Google’s also using its birthday to kickoff Project 10100, a project seeking ideas on how to improve communities, employment opportunities, energy issues, the environment, health issues, education, shelter and housing problems or anything else. Five final ideas will be selected, with Google pledging $10 million in funding to them.

Cute name, but ugh, bad for those who are going to search for this. Will they look for 10100, 10100, 10×100, Project 10 to The 100 or what? None of these bring up the Google project in the top results yet. But just give it time.

Google The 12 Year Old January 1996

This is when Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on BackRub, what later become Google. Use this month, and Google is 12 years old.

Google The 10 Year Old Sept. 15, 1997

This is when, as the AFP reports, Google registered google.com.

Google The 9 Year Old Sept. 7, 1998

This is when Google may have officially incorporated.

Google The 9 Year Old Sept. 27, 1998 (Current Official Date)

Back in 2005, Google declared that Sept. 27 was its birthday. But wait — what happened with that Sept. 7 date? Well, in 2005, Yahoo came along and freaked Google out by announcing an index that was larger than Google’s. It had been ages since anyone did that. Quite a debate ensued, and I did a long write-up about it then.

Things got resolved by Google doing some PR. They announced that for their “birthday,” they’d gotten bigger — but were also dropping the count of pages from the home page, which helped (thankfully) defuse the size wars that often meant nothing about search quality. From searchengineland.com by Danny Sullivan.

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