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THE GOOGLE STORY
By: David Vise
Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of our Time
Delacorte
November 2005
336 pages
ISBN: 055380457X
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
"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 Motorsβ and Fordβs combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Deadβs former chef, and its employees traverse the firmβs colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.
THE GOOGLE STORY is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the worldβs 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, βchange the worldβ 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, Googleβs 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 Microsoftβs 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 foundersβ mantra: DO NO EVIL."
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