Google was founded in 1998 and has grown tremendously over the past 9 years. It now employs over 10,000 people worldwide and has indexed over 20 billion web pages. Google provides many useful search features beyond basic keyword searches, including searching by file type, negative search terms, and limiting searches to specific websites. It also offers specialty search tools for news, images, books, and more. Google has become much more than just a search engine and now provides many free services like Gmail, Calendar, Docs and more.