Google on Friday gifted itself with a playable doodle to mark its 15th birthday: a piñata game at a birthday party setting.
Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) were greeted with a doodle with five of the six letters of "Google" gathering around a birthday cake marked "15."
Clicking on the play button on the cake will start the game where one uses the spacebar to swing the bat at the piñata.
A report on IBN Live said the festive doodle marked 15 years since Stanford university students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built the search engine that would soon expand to change the Internet, and the world.
But it also noted Google had marked September 7 as its birthday until 2005, when it changed its birthday to September 27.
This was meant to coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that it was indexing, it added.
"Google for quite some time on its corporate history page mentioned September 7, 1998 as its date of incorporation but that date too has now inexplicably changed to September 4. While Google celebrates its birthday on September 27, its actual date of birth is mired in confusion," it added.
Regardless of the date confusion, however, clicking on the spyglass after playing the game will - as in the past - take the visitor to a Search Results page for - what else? - Google. — ELR, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
