India, Sept. 27 -- Google is celebrating its birthday on September 27, 2026, giving users another reason to look back at the extraordinary journey of the search engine that transformed how people find information online.

From a small research project at Stanford University to one of the world's biggest technology companies, Google has undergone a remarkable transformation. But did you know that Google was not the company's original name?

When Was Google Founded?

Google's roots go back to 1995, when Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin began working together on a search engine research project. The project initially focused on understanding relationships between websites and determining which pages were more useful or...