The Google Story

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This account reveals the remarkable journey of one of the Internet's greatest successes. Through meticulous research and exclusive access to Google, it chronicles the creation and expansion of a company synonymous with innovation and a household name worldwide. With a market value surpassing that of Disney and General Motors combined, Google offers its employees free meals from a former Grateful Dead chef and a vibrant Silicon Valley campus where scooters and inline skates are the norm. The narrative begins in 1998 when Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both graduate students at Stanford University, dropped out to "change the world" with a revolutionary search engine designed to organize the vast information on the Web at no cost. Since then, Google has made significant strides in over a hundred languages, continuously striving to include millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more in its searchable database. Readers will discover the exceptional business insight and technical prowess that propelled Google forward, the sophisticated network of computers that provides rapid search results, and the unconventional strategies that have allowed it to challenge Microsoft and disrupt Wall Street. Despite its success, Google faces complex decisions to maintain its growth while adhering to the founders' guiding principle: "don't be evil."