Doodle: Google celebrates the 20th anniversary of the search engine with an original doodle

The tech giant celebrates its 20th anniversary with a new Google Doodle that marks the occasion.

Founded 20 years ago, the company marks the occasion with a Google Doodle worldwide.

This year's doodle features letter-shaped balloons attached to a gift box. Tapping plays a YouTube video that drives popular research from around the world over the past two decades.

The different terms are Y2K, Pluto loses its planet status, Royal Wedding, 2012 on the Mayan calendar and the avocado bread. It ends with a word of thanks from Google:

Twenty years ago (ish ??), two Stanford PhD students launched a new search engine with a daring mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Although much has changed in the meantime – including the search offer in more than 150 languages ​​and more than 190 countries – Google continues to focus on creating products for everyone.

Today's video Doodle walks in the past exploring popular searches around the world over the past two decades.

So whether you've researched the status of your favorite object orbiting the sun, the latest in the world's biggest events, or how to impress on the dance floor.
In 1998, two Stanford University students launched the new search engine to make information accessible to everyone. Google Search is now available in more than 150 languages ​​and in more than 190 countries.

Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In 1996, the two partners established a partnership and created a search engine using links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. However, Google Inc. was officially born in 1998, after Brin and Page received a $ 100,000 check from Andy Bechtolsheim.

Did you know that Brin and Page originally named Google, Backrub? In 1996, they renamed Backrub to Google – a game on the mathematical expression of the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. They felt that this name reflected their mission: "to organize the information of the world and make it universally accessible and useful".

While Google does not provide accurate statistics on the exact number of queries it processes, it has already stated that there are billions of searches done each year.