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The Google Story -- An Excerpt From David A. Vise's Book
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Friday, December 16, 2005; 6:00 AM
Not since Gutenberg invented the modern printing press more than 500 years ago, making books and scientific tomes affordable and widely
available to the masses, has any new invention empowered individuals or transformed access to information as profoundly as Google. I first
became aware of this while covering Google as a beat reporter for The Washington Post. What galvanized my deep interest in the company
was its unconventional initial public offering in August 2004 when the firm thumbed its nose at Wall Street by doing the first and only multi-billion
dollar IPO using computers, rather than Wall Street bankers, to allocate its hot shares of stock.
A few months later, in the fall of 2004, I decided to write the first biography of Google, tracing its short history from the time founders Sergey Brin
and Larry Page met at Stanford in 1995 until the present. In my view, this is the hottest business, media and technology success of our time, with
a stock market value of $110 billion, more than the combined value of Disney, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Amazon.com, Ford and General Motors.
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The Google Story went on sale in the United States on Tuesday, Nov. 15, and the extraordinary reach of the search engine has made the book of
global interest. The book is also being published in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, China, Taiwan, Russia, Germany, Brazil, Italy, Japan,
Korea, the Czech Republic, Holland, South Africa, Turkey, New Zealand and Indonesia.
The best one volume biography of Madison’s life, Ketcham’s biography not only traces Madison’s career, it gives readers a sense of the man.
As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and
Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display (including a
portrait of the beautiful Dolley Madison).
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Today, zero lies at the
heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time, the quest for the theory of everything. Line illustrations.
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