{"id":192,"date":"2005-09-28T18:40:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/when-is-google%e2%80%99s-official-birthday-update-2\/"},"modified":"2006-02-23T20:49:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T20:49:29","slug":"when-is-googles-official-birthday-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/when-is-googles-official-birthday-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Official Birthday update 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following my blog post yesterday titled &#8220;When is Google&#8217;s Official Birthday&#8221; I sent an email to Google asking them this very same question, bellow is a copy of it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Google,<\/p>\n<p>I myself and many others are confused to when Google&#8217;s Official<br \/>\nBirthday actually is, I thought it was Wednesday, September 07, 2005<br \/>\nas people believe you were founded on September 7, 1998 however it<br \/>\nappears that today you are celebrating it via your Blog and Google<br \/>\nBirthday Logo.<\/p>\n<p>But then if it is today why did you create this page:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=4866&#038;topic=367<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nWhen is Google&#8217;s official birthday?<br \/>\nGoogle&#8217;s official birthday is September 7, 1998. If Google were a<br \/>\nperson, it would have started elementary school late last summer<br \/>\n(around August 19), and today it would have just finished the first<br \/>\ngrade. In other words, we&#8217;re just getting started. To discover more<br \/>\nabout Google&#8217;s history, please visit<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/corporate\/history.html. To learn about<br \/>\nour mission, please see<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/corporate\/index.html<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Which you have actually now removed and all that appears now is a<br \/>\nquickly made error page:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nDocument Not Found<br \/>\nSorry, the document you requested is not available. You can return to<br \/>\nthe refering page,<\/p>\n<p>or You can visit the main page.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Which actually has the word &#8220;referring&#8221; misspelled!<\/p>\n<p>I have written a Blog Article about this here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WwPUFuzHzP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/when-is-googles-official-birthday\/\">When is Google&#8217;s Official Birthday<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;When is Google&#8217;s Official Birthday&#8221; &#8212; Darren Straight&#039;s Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/when-is-googles-official-birthday\/embed\/#?secret=2Gp8VBj92Q#?secret=WwPUFuzHzP\" data-secret=\"WwPUFuzHzP\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So I would be very happy to get an un-automated response from<br \/>\nyourselves to when Google&#8217;s Official Birthday really is and why all<br \/>\nthe confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely<br \/>\nDarren Straight<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>When is Google&#8217;s official birthday? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;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&#8217;re just getting started. To discover more about Google&#8217;s history, please visit<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/corporate\/history.html. To learn about our mission, please see<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/corporate\/index.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>When is Google&#8217;s birthday? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s history:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/corporate\/history.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chek that page out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=4866&#038;topic=367&#038;hl=en\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they uploaded that page again because of my email I sent them and I wonder why they haven&#8217;t replied yet and will they, I hope they will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my blog post yesterday titled &#8220;When is Google&#8217;s Official Birthday&#8221; 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&#8217;s Official Birthday actually is, I thought it was Wednesday, September 07, 2005 as people believe you were founded on<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/when-is-googles-official-birthday-update-2\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When is Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Official Birthday update 2&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}