从稚嫩的初创公司到互联网企业巨头，谷歌始终保持着创新、潜力很大和生机勃勃的企业形象。本书完整讲述了谷歌20年背后的故事。
谷歌创始人如何运用各种关系获取资金和人才？如何利用原始的计算能力和万事皆有可能的理念，让谷歌成为一座灯塔和一块儿磁石？在 “卖不出去”的窘境面前，如何让风投界的两大竞争对手——凯鹏和红杉资本破例共同投资？如何成功摆脱华尔街的掌控，完成谷歌上市？
本书作者对150多人做了访谈，其中包括谷歌的竞争者、合作伙伴，谷歌创始人学生时代的见证者，美国政府官员、专家学者；并且查阅了谷歌的相关视频和音频记录，以及数千页公共与私人文档、互联网帖子和电子邮件，为读者呈现了一幅别开生面的谷歌图景：谷歌的午餐究竟有多丰盛；谷歌上市首日，佩奇和布林的表现如何不同寻常；火人节与谷歌有何神秘缘分；谷歌创始人如何在24小时内，强势地从雅虎手中抢回大单；谷歌怎样创造出造富神话……
谷歌不是一家传统的公司，在未来也不会是。它正在悄悄进入分子生物学和遗传学、人工智能、自动驾驶等充满希望的领域。谷歌才刚刚开始。
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 powerful search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. The Google Story takes you deep inside the company’s wild ride from an idea that struggled for funding in 1998 to a firm that rakes in billions in profits, making Brin and Page the wealthiest young men in America. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, this fast-moving narrative reveals how an unorthodox management style and culture of innovation enabled a search engine to shake up Madison Avenue and Wall Street, scoop up YouTube, and battle Microsoft at every turn. Not afraid of controversy, Google is expanding in Communist China and quietly working on a searchable genetic database, initiatives that test the founders’ guiding mantra: DON’T BE EVIL.
