Google’s 14th Birthday

Google is growing up. The search giant is celebrating its 14th birthday today with an animated, birthday cake doodle on its homepage.
The chocolate cake, adorned with 14 candles, sits atop a platter featuring the Google colors. The candles are then blown out and pieces of cake distributed, revealing the Google logo spelled out in leftover dessert.
Google has celebrated its birthday with doodles for the past few years, each one more sophisticated than the last.
Last year, when Google officially became a teenager, the homepage doodle featured the company's logo surrounded by presents and a cake. The image was framed as if it were a snapshot in an old photo album, and several letters in the Google logo were donning party hats for the occasion.
Back in 2008, the company celebrated a decade in business by displaying the original Google logo, also adorned with party hats. The following year, the company replaced the L in Google with two ones to honor its eleventh year. In 2010, 89-year-old Los Angeles painter Wayne Thiebaud crafted a painting of a cake, with a single candle replacing the L.