They are in fact almost identical. Over that time period both GOOG and the NASDAQ 100 have both gone up 2.8x. They're the same to 1 decimal place edit: but the

They are in fact almost identical. Over that time period both GOOG and the NASDAQ 100 have both gone up 2.8x. They're the same to 1 decimal place edit: but the NASDAQ 100 pays dividends, so Google's stock price has underperformed over that period