The Google story

Vise, David A. (Author). Malseed, Mark. (Added Author). Hoye, Stephen. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780739350119 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
ISBN: 0739350110 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:26:36.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Stephen Hoye.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 150151 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web.