The Google Story

<p><i>The Google Story </i>is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google''s thirty-five year old founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have in ten years taken Google from being just another internet start-up to a company with a market value of over US$80 billion. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to the inner workings of Google, this book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has become so familiar its name is used as a verb around the world.<br><br> But even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in a business that changes at lightning speed. In this new and updated edition to celebrate Google’s 10th birthday, David A. Vise has written a new preface and new final chapter which look at further developments since 2005 and how Google will continue to expand and innovate while trying to follow its founders'' mantra: DO NO EVIL<br><br> ''If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise''s assiduously researched <i>The Google Story </i>is for you.'' <i>Sunday Telegraph </i><br><br> ''If Google were to take on critical faculties as well as its other attributes Vise''s book would probably come out on top.'' <i>The Times </i></p>