<p>As Google turns 22 today, the company commemorated it with a doodle that reflects the current global scenario with ‘G’ celebrating the birthday through a video call with ‘oogle’. The animation includes cake and a gift too. </p>.<p>Google, the largest search engine in the world, was founded by Stanford University’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. </p>.<p>The name of the search engine is a play on the mathematical term ‘googol’. The term was coined by American mathematician Edward Kasner’s nephew during a stroll through the woods. Kasner had asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to help him choose a name for a mind-boggling number: a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Milton’s reply? A googol! The term gained widespread visibility twenty years later with its inclusion in a 1940 book Kasner co-authored called <em>Mathematics and the Imagination</em>.</p>.<p>Here's a look at some of Google's birthday doodles- </p>
<p>As Google turns 22 today, the company commemorated it with a doodle that reflects the current global scenario with ‘G’ celebrating the birthday through a video call with ‘oogle’. The animation includes cake and a gift too. </p>.<p>Google, the largest search engine in the world, was founded by Stanford University’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. </p>.<p>The name of the search engine is a play on the mathematical term ‘googol’. The term was coined by American mathematician Edward Kasner’s nephew during a stroll through the woods. Kasner had asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to help him choose a name for a mind-boggling number: a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Milton’s reply? A googol! The term gained widespread visibility twenty years later with its inclusion in a 1940 book Kasner co-authored called <em>Mathematics and the Imagination</em>.</p>.<p>Here's a look at some of Google's birthday doodles- </p>