The world’s favourite internet search engine, Google, has joined the corporate super-league with a market value which ranks among America’s top five companies.Just a decade after its creation in a Stanford University dormitory, the Silicon Valley firm’s capitalisation reached $219bn on Tuesday – overtaking healthcare titan Proctor & Gamble to place it fifth on the US stockmarket.
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