Thanks Google, we’ve never been so connected

Google’s glory is it has increased access to information with the ingenuity of its search algorithm, says Richard Fitzpatrick

GOOGLE is going places fast. A Wall Street analyst with BGC Partners predicted in October that Google will be the world’s first $1tn (€826.3bn) firm by market capitalisation.

It’s predicted to hit the mark in 2020, which isn’t bad going for an outfit two guys started from a garage a few days after surviving the 1998 Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.