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=The Google Story= The Google Story is about the development of Google, and how their founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were able to "Change the world" with their Technology by "organizing the worlds data and making it universally accessible and useful". Google is currently the most used search engine and largest web page on the internet. With a totaling revenue of 66 billion dollars, making the company the richest webpage in the world. The book was written by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed and was published on November 15, 2005 by Dell Publishing group and has been written in 26 different languages accross the world.

Summary
The Google story begins with the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page lives growing up. In 1995 at the University of Stanford, Brin and Page met while studying for their PhD. It was during their time at Stanford that the two developed a relationship connecting on each other’s "intellect, opinionated stance and gamesmanship". The Google founders realized that they both shared similar life values towards their dedication to academia, science, and technology. Larry Page and Sergey Bin began to brainstorm ideas to create an application that made online endeavors easier. In order to apply their vision, Bin and Page decided to do their research program on a search engine that they named Google. In 1996 Google was officially launched. The name Google derives from the German word Googol- the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. During their tenor at Stanford Bin and Page decided to drop out of school to pursue their search engine further. In 1999, www.Google.com was launched from a small office in Silicon Valley. The company mission was to provide “a free, easy to use tool to access all of the information on the internet”. Brin and Page have stated that Google has with “no financial motivations except to fund their company”. The book focuses on how Google was able to separate itself from the rest of the search engines by providing the best customer experience. Google's PageRank helped achieve a better customer experience by using algorithms made by Google to rank search engine results based on how often pages were visited and redirected to. The Google story written approach looks at Brin and Page's motivations and personal growth the founders go through as they create the most popular search engine in the world.

Writing style
The Google story looks at the "human side" of the Google's founders by focusing on the personal development of Brin and Page. The book makes little references towards the academic topics of how Google works because the authors focused more on the founders rather then Googles functionality. Other Google books including, The Search and The Singularity is Near, are considered to be “dryer” and “analytical” as they both discuss the bits and bytes of how Google works, and its impact towards changing the way people work and see think. The Google Story focus is directed towards Larry Page and Sergey Brin motivations and personal growth as the two developed Google. Vise and Malseed research came primarily from interviews of over 150 people including; Google employees, Wall Street analysis, Stanford professors. This allowed the authors to gain a better understanding of Google’s culture and the company’s two founders. Reviews have claimed that The Google Story is a “wild ride, fun read”, Brin and Page desire to “change the world” is something that the authors recognize and focus to present the Google ideologies to do things differently and promote change.

David A. Vise
David A. Vise is one of the two authors behind “The Google Story”. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post and works as a senior advisor to New Mountain Capital. The Google Story is Vise’s fourth book, and is a national best seller which has been written in over two dozen different languages. . Vise has stated that he believes that Google is the hottest business, media and technology success of our, as Google stock market value is 110 billion dollars.

Mark Malseed
Mark Malseed was formerly a researcher for Bob Woodward and is a two times New York Times nonfiction bestsellars. Mark is an investigative journalist and information industry consultant. Malseed has consulted to ChaCha, the lending mobile answers services, and has written numerous articles for the Washington Post. He has also contributed to the #1 best selling books the Plan of Attack and Bush at War.

Reception
Nancy Hodgman is a market researcher and industry analysis for the company Cambashi. Hodgman has positive reviews towards The Google Story claiming that it is a greatly informative for all business managers. Her book review outlines Google's focus on the customer experience. In the book the authors point out that "ads in search result are placed so they are accessible but not visually intrusive on the free search results". Hodgman review states that Googles ability to listen to their customer is the main reason why the company is so successful. The Google founders realized that they both shared similar life values towards their dedication to academia, science, and technology.

New York Times- the authors do a fine job of recounting Google's rise and explaining its search business. 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

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