The Google Story - Softcover

Vise, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330508121 ISBN 13: 9780330508124

Publisher: Pan, 2008

Synopsis

The Google Story 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. In this new and updated edition to celebrate Google's 10th birthday, David A. Vise has written a new preface and a new final chapter. He looks at developments for Google and its rivals since the last edition...

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Review:

[The authors] do a fine job of recounting Google s rapid rise and explaining its search business. New York Times
An intriguing insider view of the Google culture. Harvard Business Review
Fascinating meticulous never bogs down Even if you think you ve heard about Google ad nauseam, you will find new items about this important company. Houston Chronicle
An interesting read on a powerhouse company if you haven t read anything about one of today s most influential companies, you should. If you don t read The Google Story, you re missing a few extra treats. USA Today

From the Hardcover edition."

"[The authors] do a fine job of recounting Google's rapid rise and explaining its search business."--New York Times

"An intriguing insider view of the Google culture."--Harvard Business Review

"Fascinating...meticulous...never bogs down...Even if you think you've heard about Google ad nauseam, you will find new items about this important company."--Houston Chronicle

"An interesting read on a powerhouse company...if you haven't read anything about one of today's most influential companies, you should. If you don't read The Google Story, you're missing a few extra treats.--USA Today

From the Hardcover edition.

Book Description:

Inside the hottest business, media and technology success of our time

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0330508121
• ISBN 13: 9780330508124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352