2. By Joey Younkin, Kellen Weeks, Logan Boals and Ronaldo Ruppdawg

3.  Google was created as a research project at Stanford by Larry Page (who attended U of M, GO BLUE) and Sergey Brin.  Google is an American multinational Internet and software corporation  For the first time ever, Google split its stock into a non-voting Class C. All the original shareholders from Classes A and B immediately attained a share.  Google’s name was created by accident when the number googol was misspelled.  USA Today named Google a “hot site” in September 1999.  On September 21, 1999, the beta label came off Google.com.  The first major investor, Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, wrote a check for $100,000 after seeing a quick demo.

4.  In March 2011, Google stocks were worth $586.76, and by March 2012, Google stocks were worth $641.24.  So, despite some drops in stock value, Google made it to 2012, not only alive in the stock market, but with a 9.28% gain in stock value

5. In March, 2011, stock price was $586.76. Exactly 12 months later, in March, 2012, stock price was $641.24, a 9.28% increase.

6. WOOF! Invest in Google! Google had a 245.1% increase from 2005 to 2012!

7. Although Google’s path through stocks has been shaky, we predict it has a chance for big money growth and a chance to make you rich. So, we would advise you to invest in Google stocks today. WOOF! I told you so!

8.  http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/ 20-fun-facts-google-earliest-days-article- 1.322575 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/ 20-fun-facts-google-earliest-days-article- 1.322575  http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google