Google celebrates its 23rd birthday. To mark the day the company is celebrating with a doodle on its homepage. Doodle features a cake with '23' written on top of it. Also a birthday candle substituting for 'L' in "Google. The doodle, actually, is an animated feature. Actually, Google was founded on September 4, 1998. The company observed its birth anniversary on September 4, 1998, for the first seven years. Later, the celebrations were shifted to September 27. It is to coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that this search engine was indexing. Sergey Brin and Larry Page co-founded Google. Google is the most widely-used search engine globally.