When there is one company in the world which services are used by about all people in the world it's Google. 

Google posted a lookback on 2009 with their favorite highlights. When I look at their achievements from last year I get very excited, damn they are on the right track.

The article talks about making the web faster, integrate services and applications and (free) applications like Wave, Gmail and Analytics.You can find the article here: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/look-back-on-2009.html

All you guys at Google; YOU ROCK!