Happy Birthday Google!

14 years have now past since the internet's most popular search engine was first created. The technology giant has now gone onto bigger things, but the Google search page has remained largely the same since 1998, with few aesthetic changes over the years. A 'Google Doodle' has been used to signify the occasion. This comes only a day after the Google Play store achieved it's milestone 25 billion downloads.

Google was founded by two university students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The website was initially a university project named 'BackRub', the name 'Google' is a misspelling of googol (1 with 100 zeros). This was at a time when the web was relatively new and basic. Google search has now surpassed over 1 billion unique visitors in a single month. The company is also known for Android, the world's most popular mobile OS, Chrome, It's in-house browser, and a variety of other successful websites such as YouTube, Gmail and Blogger.

You can view the animated birthday cake doodle on the Google homepage for a limited time only. Otherwise, there's always next year...

The Google 'Doodle'