Google Celebrated Fake Birthday

Posted by nullbit on September 28, 2005, 6:58 am

We congratulated Google yesterday for their 7th Birthday, which was also the same day they announced their index to be at least three times larger than that of the competition. Now it seems, Google's birthday was not on Sept 27th as they would have you believe, but Sept 7th as threadwatch points out. Google offer this explanation:

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.

A cached version of the page reads slightly differently:

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.

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