The Story of Google by Sara Gilbert

‘The Story of Google‘ by Sara Gilbert.

Google became a part of our daily life. We are using Google to get all the information’s that we want. but how many of us know, how Google was started, who founded them and how. How many of us know that the official Google office was started in a garage that Larry and Sergy rented from a friend? what is the history of Google? to know, read this small but informative book by Sara Gilbert ‘The story of Google’. A book in the creative companies series.

The book presents us the story about the origins, leaders, growth and products of Google, the internet company that was founded in 1998 and is today world’s favorite search engine.

Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergy Brin met on the Stanford university campus on 1995. soon they began working together on a project to download the entire world wide web and figure out a way to search it using links, as a possible doctoral thesis. many budget and design issues later, Google became an officially incorporated company.

The book describes the journey of Google from the meeting of its founders at the Stanford university to becoming Billionaires. There is lot of interesting facts in the book. for example the name of the company. how the name Google came into picture.

Google’s name is actually the result of an innocent misspelling that came out of brainstorming at Stanford. Larry page and Sergy Brin had rejected idea after idea when Sean Anderson a fellow graduate student, suggested Googleplex which is actually spelled Googolplex and means the number ten raised to the power googol –  which represents the number one followed by hundred zeros.

you are trying to come up with a company that searches and indexes and allow people to organize vast amount of data. Anderson explained googleplex is huge number Larry page suggested shortening it to Google. meaning the number ten raised to the power hundred. a quick check revealed that it was still available as a domain name.

so they registered the name and scrawled it on a whiteboard in the office Google.com. but the next morning another office mate left a note for them you misspelled it. it is suppose to be G-o-o-g-o-l

one more such interesting fact is about Google’s twenty percent time project.

Every week, the software engineers at Google are encouraged to set aside their pressing projects for one day and focus on creative ideas of their own instead. it’s known as the 20 percent rule, and it’s helped launch several Google’s well known products and services. even Gmail, Google’s free web mail service, came out of a 20 percent time project.

This little book gives lot of information and interesting facts about Google. to understand Google’s growth as a giant information source in today’s information world in a short span of time, you should read this book. their is hundreds of books out their about Google. but this one is small, simple and informative.

Here is an interesting tips from Sergy Brin, mentioned in the Book.

“Don’t be afraid of failure. The more you stumble around, the more likely you are stumble across something valuable.” – Sergy Brin