Ten years ago, no one could have guessed that a little search engine start-up that began as a college research project would become a multibillion dollar company. Google is so ubiquitous that it’s even become a verb! InventHelp’s Invention Girl fully admits to “googling” herself on more than one occasion.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both 35 and worth nearly $19 billion each, originally envisioned a business plan as stripped-down as Google’s famous homepage. They planned on employing about 80 people.

Ten years on, the company occupies a 1.5 million-square-foot headquarters called the “Googleplex” plus dozens of other U.S. offices and hubs in more than 30 countries. They process a mind-boggling 1.5 billion searches per day.

Google’s sky-high ambitions and lofty goals show no signs of slowing. Just this month, it released a new web browser to vamp up its search engine and other services. Google Chrome aims to understand consumers’ search habits and deliver those results to particular advertisers. While Google already collects heaps of information about your interests, Chrome aims to earn higher ad response rates by targeting ads even more effectively.

Google’s acquisition of YouTube and maybe even Yahoo is likely to draw the attention of the government and consumer-interest advocates. The company’s motto of “Do No Evil” could prove to be a challenge to uphold as its lucrative investments continue to unfold.

Now, Invention Girl has to get back to googling for gadgets here at InventHelp!