Google is celebrating its 11th birthday today. Google has a logo today on Google.com that shows two 1s instead of an "l." ABC News reports that Google celebrates a birthday that falls sometime in September depending on when its employees feel the need for cake.
The corporate history says Google has sometimes marked both Sept. 7 and Sept. 27 -- today -- as its birthday.
Sept. 4 also has been bandied about as a birthday of sorts -- connecting as it does to a fairly mundane event in Google's history. On Sept. 4, 1998, the company filed papers establishing it as a California corporation.
Google gave up on the specifics a few years ago and posted a page saying, "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."
Today must be cake day.
The founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin first met in 1995 and begin working on a search engine in 1996. You can find Google's corporate history here.
