Google now a real blue chip

According to Marketwatch Google will be added to S&P 500 Index.

Shares of Google leaped 8.1% in Thursday's evening trading session after Standard & Poor's said it would add the company to its benchmark S&P 500 Index.

Google, already the Internet's most closely followed stock, will be added to the index as of the close of trading on March 31, Standard & Poor's said in an announcement issued after the market closed.