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pular search engine, Google is celebrated its 12th birthday on 27 September with a new doodle involving a simple picture of a cake and the the letter ‘L’ in Google replaced with a candle.
The doodle has been created by Wayne Thiebaud who is a 89-year-old Los Angeles painter from the field of pop art. The image was used with the permission from the Visual Artists and Galleries Association.
Google, which went on to become the leader in internet search and is now expanding into other sectors likesmartphones, was established as a privately held corporation on 27 September 1998. In December 1998, only months after its incorporation Google succeeded in gaining a reputation of a respected search engine providing relevant search results.
In 2001, Google launched Image Search and came out with Google Labs and Google News in the next year. In 2005, it launched Google Maps while Gtalk was launched six months later. The company also unveiled Google Reader, Google Analytics, and Gmail for mobile that year, even as Gmail went public only in 2007.
Now the company has expanded further with the release of Android platform for mobile phones and other features like Google Buzz, and Google Voice.
The company usually celebrates various occasions with doodles. The first doodle was designed by its founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page for the Burning Man Festival and it appeared in August 1998. The company now celebrates events including Halloween, Christmas, Mother's and Father's Day along with birthday’s of famous persons through doodles.
