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GOOGLE IS THE WORLDS MOST VALUABLE BRAND!!
According to the Globe and Mail, Toronto, Google is now the world's most valuable brand. Google's brand is worth worth $66.4 billion dollars or Approx $74.5 Canadian dollars. Googles' brand is now worth more than Coke, General Electric, Pepsi, IBM, Mac etc.

Google now has a marque worth $66.4-billion (U.S.) What's 10 years old and worth more than Coke?
Google now has a marque worth $66.4-billion (U.S.), and has bumped GE from the top spot, a global market research study discloses KEITH MCARTHUR

MARKETING REPORTER A decade after its launch, Google has overtaken General Electric as the world's most valuable brand. The marque is worth $66.4-billion (U.S.), according to a study by global market researcher company Millward Brown Optimor. Its study calculates the value of brands based on their ability to drive profits and their growth prospects.

"It's been coming for a while, if you look at the growth in stock market value relative to all the other technology companies out there," said Alan Middleton, a marketing professor at York University's Schulich School of Business. Google ranks ahead of technology rivals Microsoft (No. 3), IBM (9), Apple (16) and Yahoo (42). But the list also places Google - a brand so famous that it was added as a verb in the New Oxford American Dictionary - ahead of some of the world's most storied brands, including Coca-Cola (No. 4), McDonald's (11) and American Express (19).

This is quite impressive since the Google has only been in the market place for 10 years, while the other companies have been in the market place for several decades. As of April 24, 2007 , according to CNN Money - Google Stock Quote - Google's market cap is $149,385,190,000. This makes googles brand value worth approx 44% of it's market cap?!!