Google’s 16th ‘birthday’ is being celebrated with an animated doodle on Saturday, despite September 27 not being the date of the company’s incorporation. The first time Google created a doodle to celebrate its birthday was way back in 2002, to mark Google’s 4th birthday. Google was founded on September 4, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. At that point in time, the two were Ph.D. students at Stanford University who didn’t know they were going to change the world forever.