Google’s birthday: Google is celebrating 28th birthday with Google Doodle today but why it’s not matching it’s official incorporation date September 4

Google is celebrating its 28th birthday today with a special Doodle on its homepage, bringing back a nostalgic look at the company’s early logo. The tribute marks nearly three decades since two Stanford students turned a class project into one of the biggest technology companies in the world.

But there is a small catch. September 27 is not actually the date Google was legally formed. That distinction belongs to September 4, 1998, the day the company was officially incorporated. So why does Google celebrate its birthday more than three weeks later?

Google’s incorporation date gets left out

Records show that the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998, making it the closest thing to an official corporate birthday. Yet Google has never marked its anniversary on that date. Instead, the search engine settled on September 27, a date that has no direct connection to any major company milestone.

Multiple early milestones, no clear match

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