--- title: Google Celebrates 19 Years With Interactive Doodle description: Google celebrates its 19th birthday with a new Doodle directing users to some of the company's hidden gems developed over the years canonical: https://time.com/4958564/google-doodle-google-earth-interactive/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-27T03:51:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:35.291Z og:title: Google Celebrates 19 Years With Interactive Doodle og:description: Explore some of Google's most mesmerizing moments og:url: https://time.com/4958564/google-doodle-google-earth-interactive/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt765590e2e17145d0/6988df884ee2621f9130f2b5/googles-19th-birthday-5117501686939648-2x.png?branch=production&width=622&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 622 og:image:height: 350 og:image:alt: googles-19th-birthday-5117501686939648-2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Celebrates 19 Years With Interactive Doodle twitter:description: Explore some of Google's most mesmerizing moments twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt765590e2e17145d0/6988df884ee2621f9130f2b5/googles-19th-birthday-5117501686939648-2x.png?branch=production&width=622&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Celebrates 19 Years of Search With This Interactive Doodle > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Sep 27, 2017 3:51 AM UTC  Google by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Sep 27, 2017 3:51 AM UTC Nineteen years ago, Google began its ambitious task of organizing the Internet. This Wednesday, the search engine celebrates with a [new interactive Doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/googles-19th-birthday) that directs users to some of the company’s hidden gems developed over the years; games, virtual tours, rabbit-holes of obscure histories and more. “They say life is full of surprises, and Google’s history is chock-full of them,” the company said. “In fact, we wouldn’t be here without them.” The “happy surprise that started it all,” Google said, was when co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met on the campus of Stanford University in 1997\. The pair founded the company a year later with a mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google has since evolved into one of the world’s leading tech companies, serving more than 4.5 billion users in 160 countries in 123 languages. [Spin the wheel](https://www.google.com.hk/search?dcr=0&hl=en&biw=1650&bih=956&q=google+birthday+surprise+spinner&oq=google+birthday+surprise+spinner&gs%5Fl=psy-ab.3...0.0.0.4829376.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1..64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.rYdu2NVEhiA) to explore some of Google’s most mesmerizing moments with this new interactive Doodle. You may find yourself [under the waters ](https://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/galapagos-islands/)of the Galapagos Islands, making your own [sound and light shows](https://www.google.com/logos/2017/fischinger/fischinger17.html) inspired by the German-American filmmaker Oskar Fischinger, learning about the [history of Hip Hop](https://www.google.com/logos/2017/hiphop/hiphop17.html), or playing classic games such as [solitaire](https://www.google.com/search?q=solitaire#clb=clb) or [snake](https://www.google.com/search?q=snake&oq=snake&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60j69i65j69i59j69i60j69i61.479j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4958564/google-doodle-google-earth-interactive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4958564/google-doodle-google-earth-interactive/"},"headline":"Google Celebrates 19 Years of Search With This Interactive Doodle","datePublished":"2017-09-27T03:51:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:35.291Z","description":"Explore some of Google's most mesmerizing moments with this new interactive Doodle","url":"https://time.com/4958564/google-doodle-google-earth-interactive/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Internet","Google","Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt765590e2e17145d0/6988df884ee2621f9130f2b5/googles-19th-birthday-5117501686939648-2x.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt765590e2e17145d0/6988df884ee2621f9130f2b5/googles-19th-birthday-5117501686939648-2x.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"googles-19th-birthday-5117501686939648-2x","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4958564/google-doodle-google-earth-interactive/","name":"Google Celebrates 19 Years of Search With This Interactive Doodle"}}]}] ```