If we’d known your birthday was coming up, Google, we’d have baked a cake (well, after Googling for the recipe).
Fortunately for us all, you reliably rendered your own.
On Tuesday, Google celebrates its 13th birthday with a simple and classy main-page “Doodle”: A homey, scrapbooked image of the colorful logo surrounded by an uber-traditional setting of cake, presents and balloons. A landmark worthy of Hallmark. The literal “Google Image.”
Google, in other words, has just hit its teenage years. It seemed like just yesterday, you were squawking for our attention, mastering millions of new words by the day, forever in search of fresh things. Our little bundle of split-second curiosity and streamlined verbosity.
(Now, we just hope you can avoid that nasty awkward stage — especially as younger cousin Facebook tries to play with some of your things.)
Can it really be 13 years since the Bay Area company was incorporated by the “Google Guys” — Stanford’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin — and unleashed upon a fumbling wide world?
Thanks to dial-up being a distant memory, they grow up so fast.
The years of memories made by the Googleplex are enough to fill an entire Flickr scrapbook — especially, of course, if we’ve linked it to our Google account.
Look at the beginning of our PageRank phase
Fortunately for us all, you reliably rendered your own.
On Tuesday, Google celebrates its 13th birthday with a simple and classy main-page “Doodle”: A homey, scrapbooked image of the colorful logo surrounded by an uber-traditional setting of cake, presents and balloons. A landmark worthy of Hallmark. The literal “Google Image.”
Google, in other words, has just hit its teenage years. It seemed like just yesterday, you were squawking for our attention, mastering millions of new words by the day, forever in search of fresh things. Our little bundle of split-second curiosity and streamlined verbosity.
(Now, we just hope you can avoid that nasty awkward stage — especially as younger cousin Facebook tries to play with some of your things.)
Can it really be 13 years since the Bay Area company was incorporated by the “Google Guys” — Stanford’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin — and unleashed upon a fumbling wide world?
Thanks to dial-up being a distant memory, they grow up so fast.
The years of memories made by the Googleplex are enough to fill an entire Flickr scrapbook — especially, of course, if we’ve linked it to our Google account.
Look at the beginning of our PageRank phase
