Google Enters Teens; Latest Doodle Marks Its 13th Birthday

Google finally enters its teens. The search engine giant turns 13 today and the latest doodle is dedicated to this event. The image has a birthday cake with 13 candles on it and the characters of the word Google are gathered around the cake.

However, this is one of the plainest doodle's we have seen in a long time considering some of the flash heavy doodles that were common in some of the recent doodles (remember the doodle commemorating Freddy Mercury’s 65^th birth anniversary). The Google doodle which marks the biggest search engine’s 12^th birthday was also very plain.
It is interesting to note that, the date September 27 is not the actual birth date of Google. Google as a service was initiated on September 7 and until 2005 the company celebrated its birthday on this date. In 2005, Google changed it to September 27 to coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that the search engine was indexing.
Google claims that it has created doodles for around 900 occasions of which 270 of them running in 2010 and about 200 in 2011.