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Authors
David Vise is a Pulitzer_Prize winning author at The Washington Post. He was named an influential alumni from his collage and began his career writing financial analysis for The_Wall_Street_Journal, Mark Malseed is a former senior researcher on two books about the Bush administration. He has contributed to the Washington Post and the Boston_Herald.

Synopsis
Google’s magic ability to produce speedy, relevant responses to queries hundreds of millions of times daily has changed the way people find information and stay well-informed of the news. Google has seemingly overnight become indispensable. Millions of people use it daily in more than 100 languages and have come to regard Google and the Internet as one. The quest for immediate information on anything and everything is satisfied by googling it on a computer or cell phone. Google’s transcendent and seemingly human qualities give it special appeal to an amazingly wide range of computer users, from experts to novices, who trust the brand that has become an extension of their brains. That appeal is universal, enabling it to overcome differences in Culture, language and geography en-route to becoming a global favourite. For a young firm that has not spent money to advertise or promote its brand name, these are unparalleled achievements.

Intro
Google was created on September 4, 1998 in California by Larry_Page and Sergey_Brin when they opened a bank account and deposited a check and newly-establish the company’s name. Over the next several years, Google becomes one of the most profitable companies in the world and voted the number one best companies to work for. Since the company started, it has grown to serve millions of people around the world, and the mission for the company is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Creators
Larry_Page and Sergey_Brin are the creators of Google. Larry Page, an engineer and inventor was born March 26, 1973 in Michigan. He comes from two parents who were both computer experts so it is suiting that he studied computer engineering at Stanford_University. This is where he met fellow Stanford student Sergey Brin. Sergey, as well an Engineer and Inventor was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow, Russia, but then emigrated to the United States with his family. He comes from a mathematics background and received a degree in mathematics and computer science, he entered Stanford University where he and Page were completing doctorates in computer science. Together the pair invented Google which has become the most popular search engine in the world.

Growth
From a garage in Santa Margarita Ave., in California, to one of the largest companies in the world, Googles growth has been nothing short of incredible over the last decade. After outgrowing the garage, the company moves to their first Mountain View location in Santa Clara, San Jose. Within the next few years, Google wins its first Webby Award voted by users, and the first 10 language versions of Google.com were released, more and more employees are added to Googles list, Google Images gets access to 250 million images, an archive of 500 million use net discussions, and international offices were opened. The amount of work that Google has accomplished over this last decade is exponential. The money that the company has raised, every different aspect of Google that has been launched, and the number of employees that Google has acquired is an accomplishment to say the least.

Culture
Google strongly believes that it is the people that make the company what is it. The people that are hired are smart and determined, and have the ability to get the job done, whether if they have the experience from previous jobs or not. Google strives to be diverse, with all employees having a common goal and vision for the company, speaking dozens of languages, and maintaining an open culture. One of the visions the company has says it all itself, we hail from all walks of life.

Google's Ten Things
Google first wrote ten things that they know to be true when it was first being developed. From time to time the company visits the list to make sure that they are staying true to what the company is. They are as follows:
 * 1) Focus on the user and all else will follow- Since the beginning, Google has focused on providing users with the best experience possible. They want to ensure that Google ultimately serves you.
 * 2) It’s best to do one thing really, really well- With one of the world’s largest research groups focused on solving problems, Google knows what to do and how to do it well.
 * 3) Fast is better than slow- Google knows that users may only have so much time when seeking an answer and want to get it to them right away. By making the website more efficient and increasing the speed, it continues to make it quicker and accessible for users.
 * 4) Democracy on the web works- Google search works because it relies on millions of individuals posting links on websites and working together.
 * 5) You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer- With the world becoming progressively mobile, people want to access information wherever they are and whenever they need it.
 * 6) You can make money without doing evil- To ensure that Google is ultimately serving all users, there are a set of principles for advertising programs and practices.
 * 7) There’s always more information out there- Google made efforts to make more information available to users whether that was adding a phone number to look up a business directory and adding more HTML pages on the internet.
 * 8) The need for information crosses all borders- It is important that information can be accessed by the entire world, and in every language. Offices are in 60 countries and maintain more than 180 Internet domains.
 * 9) You can be serious without a suit- Google was built around the idea that work should be challenging and that challenge should be fun. Creative things are more likely to happen with the right company culture.
 * 10) Great just isn’t good enough- Being great is a starting point, not an endpoint. Goals are being set that may seem unrealistic at first, but that they can maintain in time through innovation.

Mission
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since google was founded in 1998, it’s grown to serve millions of people around the world. .