Following my blog post yesterday titled “When is Google’s Official Birthday” I sent an email to Google asking them this very same question, bellow is a copy of it:

Dear Google,

I myself and many others are confused to when Google’s Official
Birthday actually is, I thought it was Wednesday, September 07, 2005
as people believe you were founded on September 7, 1998 however it
appears that today you are celebrating it via your Blog and Google
Birthday Logo.

But then if it is today why did you create this page:
http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=4866&topic=367

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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
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Which you have actually now removed and all that appears now is a
quickly made error page:

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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.
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Which actually has the word “referring” misspelled!

I have written a Blog Article about this here:

When is Google’s Official Birthday

So I would be very happy to get an un-automated response from
yourselves to when Google’s Official Birthday really is and why all
the confusion.

Yours sincerely
Darren Straight

I still have not yet received a reply from Google, but I did notice that they have now uploaded there Fun Fact page again, the one that used to say:

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

Now says:

When is Google’s birthday?

Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake. For more on Google’s history:
http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

Chek that page out here.

I wonder if they uploaded that page again because of my email I sent them and I wonder why they haven’t replied yet and will they, I hope they will!