Google turns 17, celebrates with doodle!

New Delhi: The online search engine giant Google celebrates its 17th birthday with a simple yet nostalgic doodle.

Visitors on the homepage are greeted with a retro, plastic PC, lava lamp and even 1998's "Google!" logo.

The doodle also features the Linux penguin peeping from behind a CRT monitor displaying the first Google home page and to its side is a server made of made of Lego bricks. Even two balloons were also visible to mark the festive occasion.

It’s been seventeen years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google at a garage in Menlo Park, California in 1998.

Google has celebrated its birthday with a Doodle every year since its fourth birthday in 2002.

Here is wishing Google a very Happy Birthday!