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Google Celebrates 20th Birthday

谷歌成立20周年纪念

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Google turned 20 years old on Thursday.

周四，谷歌迎来20周年纪念。

The search engine celebrated with a special "Google Doodle" video on its U.S. homepage. The fun, animated video noted some of the most common Google searches throughout the company's history.

这家搜索引擎公司在其美国主页上发布了一段特别的“谷歌涂鸦”视频作为庆祝。这段有趣的动画记录了谷歌史上最常见的一些搜索。

One popular search from 1998, its first year in operation, was a simple question: "What is Google?"

1998年是该公司运营的第一年，当年流行的一项搜索内容很简单：“谷歌是什么？”

Other popular searches in the last 20 years include "What will happen on Y2K" -- the start of the year 2000 -- "is Pluto still a planet," "what is a selfie," and, more recently, "show me pictures of cute animals."

在过去20年里，其他热门搜索词还包括：2000年初的“千禧危机会发生什么”、“冥王星还是行星吗？”、“什么是自拍？”以及最近的“可爱动物照片大全”。

Along with the special Doodle Thursday, Google also took a look back at some of its most memorable Doodles. They include its first animated, or moving, Doodle on Halloween in 2000; a quickly drawn Doodle to mark the discovery of water on the moon; and one on Earth Day in 2015 that featured the first Doodle quiz.

除了周四这款特别的涂鸦，谷歌还回顾了以往一些最令人难忘的涂鸦。其中包括2000年万圣节发布的首款动画或视频涂鸦；纪念月球上发现水的速绘涂鸦；还有2015年地球日的第一次涂鸦测试。

Google also created a special 20th anniversary website, 20years.withgoogle.com. The site tells visitors interesting search trends throughout Google's history. For example, David Beckham was the most-searched soccer player from 2000 to 2004. And Jessica Alba was the most-searched female actor from 2005 to 2007.

谷歌还创建了一个特殊的20周年纪念网站，20years.withgoogle.com。该网站为网友展示了关于谷歌史上一些有趣的搜索热门。例如，大卫·贝克汉姆（David Beckham）是2000年至2004年间热搜次数最多的足球运动员。杰西卡·阿尔芭（Jessica Alba）是2005年到2007年热搜次数最多的女演员。

Two doctoral students from Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, launched the search engine in September 1998. Their aim was to make the world's information more useful and more organized.

1998年9月，来自斯坦福大学的两名博士生拉里·佩奇（Larry Page）和谢尔盖·布林（Sergey Brin）成立了这一搜索引擎网站。他们的目标是使全球的信息更加实用、有序。

Today, users can search in over 150 languages in more than 190 countries. And Google is the most visited site in the world, according to Alexa Internet.

如今，用户可在190多个国家用150多种语言搜索。根据Alexa Internet的数据，谷歌是全球访问量最大的网站。

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