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The Google Story
by David Vise, Mark Malseed
Buy The Google Story at: www.Amazon.com
Book Description
Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world.
Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff
eats for free in a dining room run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its
employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and
inline skates.
It is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the
world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized
access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.
In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of
graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the
world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on
the Web for free.
While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages,
Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books,
television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn
about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company
on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering
lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to
challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street.
Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL.
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press (November 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 055380457X
About the Authors
David A. Vise is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post and the author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller The Bureau and the Mole.
Mark Malseed, who has contributed to the Washington Post and the Boston Herald, has won high praise for his research efforts on Bob Woodward’s recent books, Plan of Attack and Bush at War.
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