Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old

September 5, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Technology Writer Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old (AP)

Google Technology Director Craig Silverstein, who was Google's first employee, sits on his beanbag chair in his office at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

(AP) -- When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.

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