(CBS) Has there ever been a brand name like Google? Non-existent six years ago, it’s now a part of the global language, as in, “I Googled this, or “I Googled that, or “I Googled you. To Google, a verb, is to get an instant answer by using the company's super-computer to look up anything on the Internet.
What began as a school project is now worth about as much as Ford and General Motors combined, thanks to a stock that has roughly doubled in price since the company went public last August...
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