Google celebrates its 15th birthday with an interactive piñata doodle

As Google turns 15, it is celebrating its birthday
with an interactive piñata doodle. The doodle is
a basic video game that challenges users to
collect as many sweets as possible by whacking
the piñata with a stick. The doodle also gives a
glimpse of how the search engine page looked in
1998.
The company started as a University project in
1996 and then as a garage startup by Larry
Page and Sergey Brin, both PhD students at
Stanford University, has today turned into an
Internet powerhouse and has the most influential
web presence. It was originally named BackRub,
and thankfully, later re-christened Google. The
company has come a long way from being just a
Search engine, from Android mobile operating
system to the latest Google Glass, we’ve seen it
all. Take a look at the 15 Google milestones over
the past 15 years. It is based in Mountain View,
California, which is seven miles away from the
house whose garage and bedroom was rented by
Brin and Page.
To celebrate its 15th birthday, the company has
also silently revamped its search engine
algorithm to cope with increasing complex
questions that are thrown at it by users from
web and mobile devices. The new algorithm is
called “Hummingbird” and was rolled out last
month and reportedly more than 90 percent of
Google’s worldwide searches are now handled
by the new algorithm. It also improves
Knowledge Graph with comparisons and filters,
and adds cards and cross-platform notifications
to mobile.
Though the company was incorporated on
September 4, 1998, it has been celebrating its
birthday on September 27 for the past few years.