American tech giant Google celebrates its 27th birthday on September 27, 2025, marking almost three decades as one of the most successful “garage success” stories, from the minds of Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Notably, Google's birthday was “moved” from September 4 to September 27, because the company wanted to be remembered by the day it indexed a record number of pages, by which time it was already en route to becoming the world's most popular search engine.
As the tech giant nears 3 decades at the forefront of the Internet, here are 5 modern Google applications worth knowing about:
Gemini AI
Google's premier AI model has quickly become a centrepiece of the tech giant's vision for the future—be it for writing code, summarising articles, or generating creative content with Nano Banana.
Duet AI
Enabling you to get Docs that draft themselves, Slides that suggest images and content, and Sheets that interpret data and respond to queries in seconds, Duet AI is a collective name given to generative AI integrated into its popular Workspace applications.
Lens
From being able to recognise text, food, clothes, or even math problems to translating text in images and search-by-image capabilities, Lens has become vital to phones: so much so that it has a dedicated application, and is a pre-loaded widget on most smartphones.
NotebookLM
Google's underrated AI-powered research tool and thinking partner is capable of analysing your sources—from notes of various kinds to audio transcripts and documents—to build a virtual notebook of thoughts, ideas, and concepts.
AppSheet
AppSheet is a no-code platform that uses Gemini to help transform ideas into applications for mobile, tablet, and web users. It has the power to leverage data sources like Google Drive, Dropbox, Office 365, and other cloud-based spreadsheet and database platforms.