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. <br /> <b>It sounded preposterous 10 years ago</b>, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and technology.’