Android Police: Google at 20: Garages, doodles, and all the heavy feels

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Google at 20: Garages, doodles, and all the heavy feels

On today's date in 1998, a little company named Google was formally incorporated. It was the nascent, literal garage effort of two Stanford grads as they worked on a search engine for the ol' World Wide Web. Twenty years later, Google is the third most valuable brand in the world — by at least one metric — and Android Police's raison d'être.

They grow up so fast, don't they?

Google's celebrating its birthday with a decidedly low-key doodle, showing off how Search has changed since things got started and providing a handful of fun examples of the more popular and humorous searches over the years.

Google at 20: Garages, doodles, and all the heavy feels was written by the awesome team at Android Police.