Well, I'm a little late with this post, but it appears that on September 7th, Google celebrated its 5th birthday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3084442.stm

5 years ago, with $1m in funding it was set up in a garage, today it indexes over 3 billion pages and handles 200m queries a day.

In just 5 years, it's taken the majority of the web search market, and has single handedly re-invented web searching (anyone remember how difficult it was to actually find relevant results before Google developed their ranking).

Pretty cool David!

I love Google, but I do hope Yahoo moves to Inktomi soon so Google's huge market share goes down a tad and we can spread out our traffic some