Happy Birthday Google

Written by Pablo Palatnik on September 28, 2007

WOW…9 years. I personally have my issues with Google, well only one (that issue will be my next blog post), but I have to say Happy Birthday to the largest online company/search engine in the world. Google is it…for now.

Google grew at an incredible pace to be one of the, if not THE most important online company of our time.

Google made A LOT of people A LOT of money. If you caught the early wave of SEO and paid search which probably began in the early to mid 90’s and were successful…then you were REALLY successful.

Google turned a search engine into an incredible online vehicle for businesses and consumers with its search technology and online applications.

Google opened its doors as a public company in 2004 with an IPO of $85 (I believe) and now its stock is valued at over $500.00 a share! The future is looking promising as no search engine has come close to building the empire Google is today. Yahoo is a strong company…Google is the empire. This image is right before Google went public (some figures of the largest players online:)

Wonder what those figures look like now hu? Happy Birthday Google.