"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 that used to be run by the Grateful Dead�s
former chef, and its employees traverse the firm�s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.
The Google Story 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 difficultchoices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders�
mantra: DO NO EVIL."