Users baffled by Google's extra 'l'

28 September 2009 05:51am

Internet giant Google has sparked confusion after deliberately misspelling its own name.

The search engine's home page appeared on Sunday with an extra "l" in a bid to raise awareness of its 11th birthday.

Google corrected its name several hours later amid debate over the exact date of the company's birth.

According to reports, last year the site put up its 10th birthday logo on September 2.

The site's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met in 1995 at university in the US.

In 1996 they began working together on a search engine called BackRub, which was successful enough to crash the Stanford computers that hosted it.

By September 1997, they had registered the online name Google - but in 1998 they began to run it out of the garage of a friend, Susan Wojcicki.

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