THE GOOGLE STORY
There are 2 bright young men, they keep all decision making authority over GOOGLE public company in their hands, their company has a total shares value$ 80 Billion, they are just 31 years old. here are few points surmised out of this book.
1) What actually is the sauce briefly mentioned in this book.
2) Without becoming wayward, how did the 2 guys remained loyal to their core competency.
3) What prompted them to act with SEC the way they acted.
4) Why are their servers different from other people's servers.
The grail of Google seems to be the sauce, this sauce is giving them such a successful
application on internet. What is that grail?
As per the confession of the writers of THE GOOGLE STORY David A.Vise and Mark Malseed
I am confused why a company whose revenue generation was nil, could get away with all their
demands against the 2 most powerful venture capital giant firms in the days of dotcom bubble bust
they were doled 25 Million dollars by John Doerr(Kleiner Perkins) Michael Mortiz(Sequoia
Capital) and these two firms showed abundance of patience in the development stage with nil
revenues, they even teamed with each other(against their intentions) without seeing the real
sauce of Google. These 2 Investment firms just took the promise of Doctorate dropouts from
Stanford University, they even helped Google green horns in troubled days to hire the best
CEO in the Internet business, Mr.Eric Schmidt.
How come these 2 green horns scored on every front in their struggle period? They won their
demands from old established business houses, it seems there is a MAVERICK guardian angel guiding them in all walks of their business, even the sauce is provided by that MAVERICKon the
conditions of secrecy, this angel knows the requirement of software industry inside out, it seems
he has guided Mr. Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop their company on every stage into a giant of
Search Industry, GOOGLEhas exciting days ahead.
There is a shroud of enforced secrecy on every step, A man who was bled unjustly by the industry
has guided them and demanded them to keep his identity Anonymous, this is clear as daylight, come on people 2 green horns cannot revolutionize search engine technology, without some secret HANDSHAKE of machines, like our own fax machines shakes hands with tone of the receiving machine.
Good thinkers are seldom good businessmen, good businessmen cannot be good at politics, good political experts cannot be good deal makers, good deal makers cannot be good at public relations remember thinkers and doers are seldom combined in one human grain, I detect a supermen like achievements in their GOOGLE story.
But I am glad Google's going to use all that computing power to empower us common men, they will help out in human gnome project, in DNA mapping projects and other biological fields and
development of alternate fuel technology, there are human benefits to THE GOOGLE STORY. In India a scientist developed fuel from plant leaves, someone ought to take a encouraging look at it.
GOOGLE **can be used effectively in the following manner:
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Every political party is constantly complaining about poor voter turn out( A fact in every
democratic country) Why not use Google to vote casting and counting with all their super
computing power, there wont be any case of booth grabbing, a experiment on small level can be
done on a district attorney level.(As for people who don’t have home computers can go to cyber
cafe to cast their vote) This will save $ Dollars, Dollars, Dollars of hard earned tax payers
money, governments can used the saved funds in alleviating poverty. There will be first time in
history of elections transparency, free of strong arming of the voters, a true experiment in
democracy, 100% assurance of popularly elected representative. As it is now a days voter turn out
is 35% and to call a elected representative, people's representative with so low turn out is
unethical and unjustified and even undemocratic.
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When Mr. Sergey Brin and Mr.Larry Page were able to tackle SEC and WALL STREET with their IPO, thru online bidding they were sure of secure servers and hack free environment, Yo! world give new technology application in all fields, our old methods have become tiresome and corrupt, lets try
internet empowerment a revolution for benefits of COMMON MAN.
But of course many of these points are not in the book I am reviewing but these points came to my mind with the effect of this book on me. Our book under review simply says lot of things like, Who said what about Google, this book is written in a reported form, it has used lot of already printed matter, there are things said about parents of GOOGLEowners, there are stories about what food is eaten in Googolplex, there is biography of chief chef Ayers of Google kitchen, there are stories of who was the first employee. There are stories where the founders go for their entertainment, what was the way a founder's birthday was celebrated, what were the dishes served in the birthday party, there is a recipe of roast chicken, why was free ice cream distributed in googolplex, what alterations were done to initial Google logo, all this is important stuff, but no doubt without sauce.
My deep sympathy is with the 2 authors of this book, they might have signed no disclose contract
before getting the assignment to write THE GOOGLE STORY. But all this is reflection why we need
software like GOOGLE even more. Google EarthLink, Google news, Google desktop and other more new innovations to empower us and make us free, but with the restrictions on our poor Authors still this book was published by PAN MACMILLANof Great Britain, they did a hard job well, they have maintained pace in their writing and gave readers a few alms of information, I am willing
to take a dose of self induced happiness and give full 5 stars.
As for invasion of privacy controversy with GMAIL, it can be solved by just adding a clause in
user agreement, that ad sense will be used on email page, anyone who press the button I agree will not have any bone to chew, anyway our host scans all our emails everywhere. They have a right to it, as they own the resources we are using, it the right of the landowner and the tenant, this is the right of the possessor of the property. Under same rights mouthshut can partner with Google to use our reviews and produce ad sense, which will help mouthshut grow. But they should start paying us writers at cash for points, at present I think mouthshut is shelling money from their pockets, instead of distributing their earnings.
In conclusion I wish Google good luck with Library scanning project, they should scan Osmania
University of Hyderabad, Library, it is one of the oldest universities of India.
*Yo! good news is Google is making information bomb for common men!
