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Google wants everyone to know that it is 11 years old.

Not only does the search page's URL contain the element "11th_birthday" within its name, but the first result on that page, headlined "Google," contains the term "Google's 11th Birthday."

Yeah, I too thought I ran the world when I was 11. Then some fucking asshole tore my fort down.

But like so many businesses, it really isn't sure exactly sure what day it was born on.

The corporate history says Google has sometimes marked both Sept. 7 and Sept. 27 -- today -- as its birthday.

Sept. 4 also has been bandied about as a birthday of sorts -- connecting as it does to a fairly mundane event in Google's history. On Sept. 4, 1998, the company filed papers establishing it as a California corporation.

Regardless, the people at Google decided the 27th is a totally great day to eat cake and who can argue with that. Myself, I think I am getting up to go after ice cream.