Celebrating its eleventh foundation day in a unique manner, Internet search biggie Google Sunday released a special ‘misspelt’ version of its logo – adding an extra “l” in its logo on the home page to form an 11. Last year, for its tenth birthday, Google had replaced the first letter “o” in its logo with a cupcake! 

The latest change of two ‘Ls’ immediately caught the notice of avid Internet users, so much so that within hours of the ‘misspelt’ logo going live, the popular search phrases on the Web happened to be – “why is google spelt wrong” and “why does google have two Ls.”

It was eleven years ago, in September 1998, that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University, founded the search company, which in the past too has established a precedent of altering its doodle – the special logo on Google’s search front page – to commemorate significant historical dates and important events.

Last month, to mark the 400th anniversary of the first public display of Galileo's innovative telescope, Google changed its logo into a telescopic doodle.

And, last week, to mark the 143rd birthday of ‘War of the Worlds’ author HG Wells - born on 21 September 1866 - Google had used a series of three logos of flying saucers and Martian fighting machines!