We were talking about former fashion editor André Leon Talley, who in his operatic self-presentation, favoring sweeping caftans and towering hats, was one kind of quintessential New Yorker. This is a city, after all, in almost constant flux, made of people largely from elsewhere, who, as Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation once told me, come to New York to reinvent themselves or become more themselves to leave their mark.

This mantra went on to become Google's mission statement.Indeed, the quintessential New York look may be more about how you carry yourself than how you actually dress. This was the chance encounter that started the entire Google phenomena.īoth the geniuses, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, came together and started to develop a common goal: to organise the entire world's information and make this organisation into something that is useful and accessible to everybody in the world. In an act of random coincidence, Google's other co-founder, Sergey Brin, was assigned to show Larry Page around the campus. In 1997, Google's co-founder Larry Page arrived at Stanford University in order to pursue a PhD in computer science. This includes a version of the popular classic game, Snake. To mark its 19th Birthday, Google has integrated a spinning wheel, which is a simple and fun way to explore the 19 surprises that Google has launched over the past 19 years. In other words, today is Google's 19th Birthday. This is because today's Google Doodle commemorates Google's 19th year of existence on earth. Today's Google Doodle is sure to be a special one.

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