Well apparently Google’s Official Birthday is today Tuesday, 27 September 2005 thats why they have a new Google 7th Birthday Logo on their Homepage but is it really Google’s Official Birthday today because I clearly remember celebrating it on Wednesday, September 07, 2005, lets take a look back into the past and present and see what we can find out about when it really is, fist stop Google’s Official Support Page!

Google first says it’s September 7, 1998

When is Google’s official birthday?

Google’s official birthday is September 7, 1998. If Google were a person, it would have started elementary school late last summer (around August 19), and today it would have just finished the first grade. In other words, we’re just getting started. To discover more about Google’s history, please visit
http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html. To learn about our mission, please see
http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/index.html

But unfortunately this page has now been removed and all that you will receive is the following error message if you try and view it:

Document Not Found

Sorry, the document you requested is not available. You can return to the refering page,

or You can visit the main page.

Ok so do you notice how this doesn’t look like a normal Google Error page and that they have even misspelled the word referring now don’t you think that is just weird considering not long ago Google were saying it was the 7th of September, you can view a cached page of it as it was on the 15 Sep 2005 03:46:08 GMT here

Next stop Matt Cutts Blog, Matt Cutts is a Google Engineer:

Happy Birthday!
September 7, 2005 @ 12:24 pm • Filed under Google/SEO

I think Google turns seven today. I recently ran across an email from our second birthday in 2000. Here it is:

From: Matt Cutts
To: (most Googlers)
Date: Thu 9/7/00 9:51pmIn celebration of Google’s two year anniversary of September 7, 1998, there’s a bunch of donuts tonight in the Soul Calibur room.

Matt, Lxxxx, and Dxxx

Krispy Kreme had just opened a store up in Mountain View barely three minutes from Google. Before that, you had to drive to Union City to get your donut fix. So three of us made a donut run and got 2-3 boxes of hot glazed goodness. The email was sent out at 10 pm because a bunch of us were working late. Back then, everyone was in one small building. The biggest room served as a conference room, and in the corner was a TV and a Sega Dreamcast. I’m sure it could play other games, but you only saw people playing Soul Calibur back then, so people called it the Soul Calibur room.

This morning as I walked in I passed a large meeting room. The Lxxxx from the email above was teaching an orientation class to a new group of engineers. I watched him for a minute and saw new engineers soaking up Google infrastructure and Google culture at the same time. It energizes me to see great new people join Google and start pushing to make the web and the world better from their perspective.

The past several years have been something to see, from Raging Search to Scientology to Deja and everything else. When I look back, the wild thing is that I’m more excited about Google now than I was back then. I get to work with amazing people on things that I think will improve the web. I’m honored and grateful to work with the people I work with because they’re so damn smart, capable, and they care about what they’re doing. Happy B-day, Google.

Ok so even a Google Engineer is saying he thinks Google’s Official Birthday is the 7th of September 2005 but why are Google now saying its the 27th of September in their Google Blog and they have a Google Birthday Logo to celebrate it!

Lets check that Google Blog Post out!

We wanted something special for our birthday…
9/26/2005 09:14:00 PM
Posted by Anna Patterson, Software Engineer

Google opened its doors in September 1998, and we’ve been pursuing one mission ever since: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our original index.

I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished in the years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up the first Google data center in Larry’s dorm room at Stanford. Today, along with web search based on Larry and Sergey’s original BackRub search engine, we offer specialized search for everything from satellite images to academic papers, local business info to your own computer. We’ve also built software for email and mobile services, photo management and computer-to-computer voice calling, to name just a few things.

But search remains our heart and soul, so I’m especially pleased by this latest expansion of our index, which makes Google more than 3 times larger than any other search engine. See for yourself how effective the new Google search index can be. Come up with a search query that’s special to you (your name, your elementary school, and your favorite animal, for example) – a combination of words that is likely to exist on just a few web pages out of the billions we’ve indexed, a few needles scattered in the Internet’s endless haystack. Ready? Let’s go.

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Ok so are you confused yet I certainty am, the only reason I can see for them saying their birthday is today is because they have removed the index size number from their home page and they thought today would be a good day to celebrate it, though thinking back to the 7th of September 2005 why didn’t they have a Google Birthday Logo then, I do remember people questioning it at the time, I think the best thing to do is to see if I can get in contact with Google about this and see what they have to say about it, I just hope I get a nice un-automated reply from them!

For now check these other two articles out and compare the dates yourself:
Happy Birthday, Google! from Search Engine Watch
Google’s 7th Birthday, Schmidt Says Index 3 Times Larger Than Others