The Google Story

Overview

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. 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.

Editorial Reviews

Vise (The Bureau and the Mole) and Malseed, contributor to Bob Woodward's Bush at War and Plan of Attack, join forces in this detailed, inside look at the history of Google, the world's number one Internet search engine. Fascinated with the massive worldwide impact of Google, these experienced investigative reporters apply their rigorous research skills to produce this behind-the-scenes story of this rapidly evolving company that continues to stun the world. The rich, solid narration by Stephen Hoye provides an always interesting documentary style to this important work. The authors offer fascinating insights into the early friendship between Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt, the initial start-up of the company, the attempts to sell early versions of the search engine to Silicon Valley companies, and much more. Now billionaires, Page and Brin have managed to integrate their genius with their counterculture rectitude, putting nearly all available electronic information at the fingertips of computer owners everywhere. Highly recommended for academic business and information technology collections and larger public libraries.-Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Author Information

Bio of Mark Malseed

Mark Malseed, the former researcher for legendary journalist Bob Woodward, collaborated on three consecutive New York Times nonfiction bestsellers prior to writing The Google Story, his first book. Now a writer and consultant based in New York City, Malseed shares his investigative insights with businesses, organizations and schools in "Google Sleuthing" seminars, and as a private research advisor. He has been a guest commentator on the BBC, ABC News and other programs. As Bob Woodward's exclusive researcher from 2002 to 2004, Malseed collaborated on the #1 blockbusters Plan of Attack and Bush at War and numerous articles for The Washington Post. He previously contributed research and reporting for David Vise's The Bureau and the Mole. Malseed has written for the Travel section of the Boston Herald and for several travel guidebooks, and has extensive knowledge of the cruise industry, which he is lending to a cruise Web site being launched in 2006. A native of Philadelphia, Malseed graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Lehigh University, majoring in architecture, and also studied at the DiS school in Copenhagen and in Paris. He spent two years during the height of the dot-com boom as a technology and design consultant to a personal finance Web site. A proud Lehigh "Engineer," Malseed serves on the university's Young Alumni Council and volunteers both locally and nationally to promote alumni events and education.

Bio of David A. Vise

David A. Vise was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and has earned an MBA from the Wharton School, as well as an Honorary Doctorate of Literary Letters from Cumberland University. A former Wall Street investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Vise also studied at the London School of Economics. He started his career in journalism at The Tennessean, first as a copyboy and later as an intern reporter. Eventually he became a reporter for The Washington Post and covers the FBI and the Justice Department. Vise won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for a four-part Washington Post series, "The Man from Wall Street: John Shad's Reign at the SEC," and received the 1990 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, the 1992 Distinguished Alumnus Award from University School of Nashville, and numerous awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association for coverage of the nation's capital city. He is the coauthor of "Eagle on the Street," a book about the Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street's insider trading scandal of the 1980s. He is also working on a movie based on "The Bureau and the Mole", in development from Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney's Touchstone Pictures.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Random House

Filesize

2.71 MB

Number of Pages

336

eBook ISBN

9780440335702