Internet firm’s market value puts it among America’s top five companies – and it plans to get bigger stillGoogle, the world’s most popular internet search engine, has joined the corporate super-league with a market value that ranks among America’s top five companies. Ten years after its creation in a Stanford University dormitory, the Silicon Valley firm’s capitalisation reached $219bn (£105bn) on Tuesday – overtaking healthcare titan Procter & Gamble to place it in fifth place on the US stockmarket.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/nov/01/news.google