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Google's Birthday! But Which Day?

Giant Search Engine Celebrates 'When People Feel Like Having Cake'

Happy birthday, Google. There will be candles and presents for you at three.
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Google's "Don't Be Evil" philosophy is about Web censorship.

Or maybe there won't.

Today is actually the 11th anniversary of a fairly mundane event in Google's history. On Sept. 4, 1998, the company filed papers establishing it as a California corporation.

But does it celebrate today? Actually, no. The corporate history says Google has sometimes marked Sept. 7, or Sept. 27, and a few years ago it gave up on the specifics 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."

Even 1998 may not be so meaningful to the company's history. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two Stanford graduate students who started Google, met in 1995 -- when Page was considering going to Stanford and Brin was assigned to give him a campus tour.

Google Birthday: Google Celebrates 11 years - ABC News