The success story of Google has fascinated millions of people worldwide. The real story is focused on the multi-billionaire founders of the company, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

The Google stocks at US$573 a share, which went five times at August 2004 public offering, are an investment option everyone is talking about. However, the Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post reporter David Vise did not mention how the 30-something cofounders reached their glory and if the Google stocks is worth investing in.

The Google story is an ordinary account: Two friends built an internet mousetrap and the worldwide internet users beat a path to their door and gave the two countless dollars.

David Vise searched for inside juice with the help from Mark Malseed, a researched on two books by the Post’s Bob Woodward. The world-renowned search engine was described in a broad technological context.

The Google Story provides the readers a useful introduction. However, it does not include systematic moments on how the company thought of the notion that the more links a webpage has, the more important the website becomes.

Once the two founders Brin and Page turned their idea into a formula for searching the Web, Thomas Edison’s adage was brought to life when the Google founders used their genius with a combination of 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

It is difficult to write an interesting story about sweat. Therefore, Vise struggled to focus the story on the Google’s founders – Page and Brin. It highlighted Page’s college days at the University of Michigan, as he becomes a member of the honor society.

It is astonishing to know that Google’s rivals might have had a hand with Page and Brim’s creation during his college years. Bill Gates Microsoft founder donated US$6 million to Stanford University, Brin’s school, to help the development of the computer building. This location was where Brin and Page started their examination of the webpage links that drive the search engine.

The Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was an investor of the search engine and informal adviser of Page and Brin.

Google’s success story had numerous “what ifs.” Happy to negotiate a US$1 million deal with Alta Vista in 1998, the two founders almost sold the Page Rank program. The deal was not completed when Digital Equipment, which owned Alta Vista, backed out of the negotiation. Excite and Yahoo! Inc. was two of the prospective buyers of the Page and Brin’s program.

According to Page, the company will be ruthlessly efficient about how they run the company and their purpose is to make a lot of money. However, the company would not necessarily be going to make money from all of its programs.

Google’s story is a unique story of money and business. The company’s chapters are still evolving with each new feature they present. The Google Book would add more information in the years to come.