Like all good ideas, Google quickly went from being a Stanford graduate school project, operated out of a dorm, to becoming the most successful search engine in the world. It all started 10 years ago when creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, with a little help from an investor and only four computers.

A decade later, the company has nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value but, most importantly, it has created a lifestyle for billions of people all around the world who know that the information they want is only a click away.

Nowdays, when you’re looking for a job or an apartment, when you want to know who sings that song you’ve been humming all day or simply are curious about a prospective boyfriend, you don’t just search it, you “Google it.”

A company must have quite an impact in order to define a whole new concept, one that didn’t exist before. You don’t hear anyone saying that they want to Microsoft-it-up a bit when they turn on their computers.

Although hugely successful and effective, Google still tries to find new and better ways to search and find relevant information. "We need to make search as good as a human answering a search request," says Craig Silverstein, the company’s first employee back in the days when people were still trying to figure out the meaning of World Wide Web.

"We need to be like the computer on 'Star Trek,' and we are very, very far from that." Another member of the Google family for almost ten years, Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience talks about the next ten years and what changes will they bring: “Ultimately, I think we will focus on what serves users and Google best: Making the Web better and making it easier to use the Web.”