Today, the most famous search engine in the world celebrates its 22nd anniversary, as it changed its logo on the home page, which it calls (Doodle), to another in which the first letter of the search engine's name appears in English (G), and it is celebrating its 22nd birthday in front of a computer In it, characters representing the rest of the letters of his name appear, and they are celebrating with him from a distance using video conference technology, in a clear indication of the impact of the Corona pandemic on this year's celebration.
The Google search engine service was officially launched on September 27, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were studying at Stanford University in California.
The world-famous name now belongs to a mathematician who originated during a simple walk around 1920. While American mathematician Edward Kasner was walking with his young nephew Milton Sirota in the New Jersey woods, Kasner asked for his help in choosing a name for a puzzling number, number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Milton responded with the word "Googol!", And the term gained widespread popularity 20 years later by being included in a 1940 book, co-authored by Kasner, titled Mathematics and Imagination.
The Google search engine is one of the most visited websites in the world, and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is one of the 4 largest technology companies in the world.