Yesterday, Google officially became a teenager. Looking back on what has happened since the company’s last birthday, we saw the launch of Google+, Google Wallet and a host of other tools. The company also shut down a number of experimental projects, was again the center of a number of rumors and hoaxes, and continued to entertain with its doodles.

Search Engine Watch has a good roundup of the top 12 stories that shaped Google over the past 12 months. How do you think the company fared overall over the course of 2010-2011? Should there be concern about the difficult teenage years ahead?