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Technology giant Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday on Monday by releasing an animated doodle on its homepage.
The doodle depicts a birthday cake with a lit candle replacing the letter 'L' in 'Google'. The cake has the number '23' written on it, marking the company's 23rd birthday.
Google was originally founded in 1997 but was officially born as Google Inc on September 27, 1998. It is now the most popular search engine on the planet.
Sundar Pichai is the current CEO of Google, who succeeded Larry Page on October 24, 2015.
In an official statement marking its birthday, Google wrote: "In 1997, Sergey Brin, a graduate student at Stanford University was assigned to show Larry Page, who was considering Stanford for graduate school at the time, around campus. By the next year, the two Google co-founders were building a search engine together in their dorm rooms and developing their first prototype."
"Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the globe, and while much has changed from the early days of Google, from its first server housed in a cabinet built out of toy blocks to its servers now being housed in more than 20 data centres globally, its mission of making the world’s information accessible to everyone remains the same," the statement added.
