Happy 14th Birthday, Google, And Thanks For All the Doodles

This year's birthday doodle is an animated cake. Blow out its candles and see what happens!

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2011 

 

Google's gone old school last year with a retro-styled birthday party snapshot.

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2010

Last year Google borrowed a Wayne Thiebaud cake to mark its 12th year in business.

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2009

Google kept things simple in 2009; it replaced the "L" of the logo with the number 11.

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2008

For Google's 10th anniversary the logo reverted to the original design from 1998. Apparently the server rack symbolizes what Google had hoped to receive as a birthday present.

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2007

Google's second "G" was replaced with a colorful piñata in 2007, appropriately shaped like a number nine to mark that special day.

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2006

A cute cupcake greeted Google users on Sept. 27, 2006.

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2005

Seven scrumptious-looking slices of cake decorated the logo to occasion Google's seventh year in business.

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2004

In 2004 Google selected Sept. 7 to celebrate its six-year milestone.

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2003

The company also chose Sept. 7, 2003 as the date to cut the cake for Google's fifth birthday.

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2002

Finally, the very first doodle celebrating Google's birthday appeared on September 27, 2002. It marked the search engine's 4th anniversary.

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Google, the world’s biggest Internet company, celebrated its 14th birthday Thursday.

Google’s birth date is the subject of some controversy. According to some accounts, the company was created on Sept. 4; but in the last couple of years, Google itself has been celebrating its birthday on Sept. 27, which lands on a Thursday this year.

Since 2002, Google has been celebrating with special birthday doodles. Today’s doodle is an obvious one: an animated cake with 14 candles for you to “blow” out. 

Source : mashable