2. DETAILS OF THE BOOK
• Publishers: pan mac Millan ltd. In 2005
• Cost: Rs.259 on flipcart.com
• Pages: 326

3. AUTHORS
• DAVID A VISE
• Pulitzer prize
winner.
• This is his 4th book.
• MARK MALSEED
• Information industry
consultant
• Investigative reporter

4.  Spring 1995,New student orientation at Stanford.
 Larryandsergey.
 William Gates Computer Science Center
 Rajeev Motwani and MIDAS(mining data at
Stanford)
 Inktomi, Altavista and yahoo checks
 Digital Libraries Project, Links & PageRank .
 Backrub & Its Logo.
 Googleplex, google & G-o-o-g-o-l.

5.  Google soon Overgrew bounds Of Lab.
 Technology Disclosed to Stanford OTL(office of technology
licensing).
 Incomparable Google Potential. In 1997,Google has become
the de-facto search engine for the Stanford community.
 Their advisors fund $ 10,000 for new computers.
 They tried to sell this technology to various companies who
denied to take their technology.
 Hence came out to be entrepreneurs.

6. Andy Bechtolsheim (legendry
Investor).
Google Inc. ($1,00,000).
Moore’s Law.
Started Recruiting.
Top 100 Web Sites List.
Need of Angel Investors.(googleware)

7. 1. Andy Bechtolsheim gave $1 million
2. Through two venture capitalists
• John doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers
• Mike moritz of Sequia capital
Both of them raising together $25 million

8. Hiring a Pilot & Getting Google
Eric Schmidt .
Winning AOL.
Overcoming inktomi and overture.
Google socialist, yahoo captialistic
approach.

9. th
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And on
day & Global
Goooogling
Teoma (third generations search
technology ASK.COM).
Krishna Bharat and Google News.
Craig Nevill-Manning and Froogle.
Globalisation of Google.

10. Google Economy ( basically through click based
pricing of adds)
Going public ( initial share price was between $110
to $135 per share later reduced to $85 to $95 per share)
Charlie’s Place
Space Race(winning of AOL in providing ads to it,
and innovations Google Desktop Search, Google Mini)

11. Show Down & Trick
Clicks
Geico v. Google.
$1 Billion Per Year.
$100 Million Per Month.
$3 Million Per Day.
$50 Per Click.

15. Attacking Microsoft
The real battle being waged was
over recruiting and retaining the
brightest technologists in the world.

16. What does the book convey ?
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Focus on Great Technologies.
Focus on Great People.
A healthy disregard for the impossible.
Innovation.
Determination.
Believe.
Ambition
Finally it’s a good book that takes us through the journey of
google keeping us glued to it.

17. Since 2000
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