Google Doodles have become a signature of the search engine, with its very first a simple stick figure symbolizing the Burning Man Festival in 1998.
The cartoon, or doodle, was included as a comical message to tell Google users the owners were out of office—they were attending the Burning Man festival.
Since then, Google Doodles have been used to celebrate holidays and anniversaries as well the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists. According toGoogle's first doodle. The stickman was a joke to let the search engine's users know its owners were out of office attending the Burning Man festival.
The company has come a long way over the last two decades, from starting off in a Stanford dorm room to its current home—a giant Mountain View campus in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Not to mention its international offices, spanningGoogle was officially started in 1998 by two Stanford University PhD students: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page.
But Google did not formerly receive its"Inc" status until after it was granted funding in the form of $100,000 from Sun Microsystem co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.
Google's success hasn't come without its controversies. The company's dominance in the tech market has landed it in trouble with organizations including the European Union, who charged Google
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