Today Priceless Google Turns 27

Today Priceless Google Turns 27, Google was actually established on September 4, 1998, although since 2006, the company has actually celebrated that day as its birthday on September 27, the same date it announced the first big thing about its search-indexing capability.

Important Dates of Google 27th Birthday (2025):

• Headquarters: Mountain View, California.
• Age: 27 years old in 2025.
• Birthday Date: September 27, 2025.
• Celebration: Google normally celebrates the occasion by having a special Google Doodle on the home page across the world.

 

Details & Highlights

• The Doodle is called the 27th birthday of Google and its theme is devoted to the nostalgia and going back to the roots.
• Contact: The painting features a logo of Google as the center, which was originally published in 1998, as a reference to the origins of the corporation.
• As a part of the description of the Doodle, Google has mentioned that it was humbly started as a research project in a garage – indicating the humble beginning of their project.
• Besides the Doodle, the media reported that Google thanked its audience and underlined the purpose of the Doodle tradition to celebrate the milestones.

Early Growth (1998–2004)

• Google has a PageRank algorithm which made it unique as it ranks pages by their relevance and popularity of their links.
• In 1999, the headquarters of Google relocated to Mountain View, California, nowadays the Googleplex.
• Features added by Google as:

1. Google Images (2001)
2. Google News (2002)
3. Gmail (2004)

• In the year 2004, Google was the most popular search engine in the world, having overtaking other firms such as Yahoo! and AltaVista.

IPO and Expansion (2004–2010)

• Google was first publicly traded in August 19, 2004, and raised 1.67 billion dollars.
• New innovative products and services were introduced:

1. Google Maps (2005)
2. Google Earth (2005)
3. A Google video (2005, which was acquired by YouTube in 2006)
4. Google Calendar (2006)

• In 2007, Google released Android which was the leading mobile operating system worldwide.
• The Google Chrome browser was subsequently launched in 2008, therefore becoming a competitor to Internet Explorer and Firefox.

 

Diversification with Alphabet Formation (2010-2015)

• Google moved into hardware, cloud computing, AI and self-driving cars.
• It has acquired Nest (smart home devices), DeepMind (AI research) and Motorola Mobility.
• Google was made a subsidiary in 2015, when it re-structured under parent company, Alphabet Inc.
• This enabled more concentration on other moonshot projects such as Waymo (autonomous vehicles), Verily (healthcare) and X (research lab).

 

AI Era & Recent Years (2015–2025)

• Google also bet a lot on AI and machine learning, releasing such tools as:

1. Google Assistant (2016)

2.Google DeepMind projects.

3.Generative AI in Workspace, Search and Bard.

• Google became a cloud services (Google Cloud Platform) and advertising (AdWords/Ads) leader.
• Razzy anniversary events, such as the 25th birthday in 2023 and 27th in 2025, with Doodles being the focus.
• Google is constantly developing in search, artificial intelligence, hardware (Pixel) and services around the world with an emphasis on accessibility, sustainability and innovation.

 

Strengths

• Leadership in search engines market (>90% world wide)
• Huge product and service ecosystem (Android, Maps, Gmail, YouTube)
• Research and development of AI leadership.
• Big data or cloud infrastructure.

 

Weaknesses

• Criticism of data handling, and privacy issues.
• Reliance on advertising income (more than 80 percent of revenues)
• Regulatory review and antitrust litigation around the world.

 

Controversies

• Antitrust in the US, EU and other jurisdictions.
• Problems with search bias and censorship.
• Ethical issues in AI and military projects by employees.
• In a number of countries, tax avoidance accusations.

 

What Google did / announced

1. Special Doodle

To mark the 27th birthday, Google released a nostalgic Doodle of its oldest logo (of 1998).

The Doodle’s message:

This Doodle is the celebration of the 27 th birthday of Google. We are marking the occasion by going down memory lane with our original logo. Search on.”

Pixel / Device Offers

In commemoration, Google made birthday promotions on its hardware products.

Examples include:

• A $100 prepaid Mastercard (through Google Wallet) upon purchasing some Pixel 10 devices (unlocked) during the birthday season.
• Phone and smartwatch trade-in deals in order to save as much as possible.
• Sticker sheet with purchase of eligible Pixel devices limited in number.

2. Media News & Focus on the Journey.

• Numerous sources glorified the nostalgia of the Doodle and how Google had grown through a garage company to become a tech giant.
• Google took this time to give back to its users and to consider its role in structuring information in the world.

 

Latest Announcements.

1.Expansion of Google AI Plus

By the 40th week of 2025, Google will have extended its AI Plus subscription into 40 additional countries by the name of Sept 23, 2025.

That is part of the push by Google to make AI tools more accessible in the world.

2. New “Gemini Drop” updates

In September (a Gemini Drop) the Gemini app was updated with new tools to create and collaborate.

A few of these probably were released around the 27th period.

3. Search language expansion AI Mode.

On September 8, 2025, Google stated that AI Mode would be released in five additional languages- Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese.

This extends previous international growth of AI Mode.

4. Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

On September 16, 2025, Google introduced a new open protocol, Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), of agent-initiated purchases (i.e. allowing AI agents to make buying decisions on behalf of their users) in a safe and interoperable manner.

5. Restructure Play Store using AI.

In September 23, Google announced new upgrades to the Google Play Store: a redesigned tabs, new AI-driven upgrades and a new Games experience.

6. Android / writing / keyboard updates.

Google also introduced Android AI features in September 2025 (e.g. improved writing suggestions in Gboard (on-device)) and tone customizations.

7. Education tools / Google Workspace.

Google launched Vids AI for Education, and now it is gradually adding features (since Sept 23) to education users in Workspace.

8. Policy / legal matters

In September 2025, Google made its statement regarding a court case that relates to Search and published its document, AI Policy Gold Standards, to inform its policy in developing economies.

There is also a document update: on Sept 27, Google made plain how it deals with websites with a high ratio of non-consentual or spoesed intimate images as part of its spam- / ranking-policies.

9. Research / generative AI

Recent publications by Google Research, e.g. time series foundation models and health-agent systems, are around end of September.

Close to this date, DeepMind also published model and safety updates (e.g. reinforcement of safety framework).

On September 23, Google also announced the 2025 DORA Report (on AI in software development).

 

Conclusion

September 27, 2025, was the 27th birthday of Google, and Google paid a hagiographic tribute to its humble origins. The star of the show was a special Doodle with the original Google logo in 1998, as this marked the transition of the company to a multi-billion tech giant to a small garage project. Although the day itself was not associated with any significant product launch or groundbreaking announcement, the event served to highlight the fact that Google has always been focused on the areas of innovation, AI, and user interaction. The Doodle and media presentations became an opportunity to consider and value the position of the platform in arranging the information about the world in almost thirty years.

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