American company Google provides a highly-touted, well-known Internet search engine that has become a verb. "To google" has become synonymous with to search. The New York Times article wrote: "agerly-awaited trading in Google stock began on the Nasdaq market this morning, opening at $100.01 a share, about 18 percent above the $85 price set in the companys initial public offering on Wednesday [August 18, 2004].. Read less