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Tomorrow marks the six year anniversary of Google's IPO. The AP reports that notwithstanding the company's share price being down about 20% this year, it is up 389% since it's IPO. Listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market, Google was started in 1996 by Stanford PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page as part of a research project. They received $25 million in venture capital funding, and give years later Google went public. The IPO provided Google with $23 billion in marketcap. By October 2007, Google's stock price hit $700 a share. The company has come a long way from the basic search engine business with products on its dashboard like Google Maps and Google News. The AP reported that CEO Eric Schmidt commented in a recent Techomony conference that "Google is now acquiring, on average two companies a month.