The Search: A Google story
Posted on 29 Jan, 2006, categorized under Information Insemination| Nerd Public Journal?
During the previous Aidil-Adha public holiday, I managed to finish reading the book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transform Our Culture. It shocked me myself that I finished the 300 pages book in just 4 days, that by that time I was also busy with raya and stuff too. .
Google is a company that for me is unique, in the sense that it was established by the time the internet bubble burst, valued USD 3 Billion in just 5 years, different ways of running the business, and many more to list. It’s the fastest growing company in history, and as for today, the stock price for google is USD 412 per share, a 400% increase in just a year. It doesn’t even hurt it’s founders and CEO that now they are paid USD 1 for their monthly salary (previously it was USD 250,000 per month for the founders) as they can get more by selling fractions of their stock, which valued few billions just for each of them.
It’s interesting to read how the company actually get started, how do they actually run the business until where it is now. Another good read is Paul Graham essays, which is good to open up the mind of some of us.
Initially I was also looking for the book titled The Google Story, but during my 2 weeks visits to both kinokuniya and MPH, it was running out of stock and doesn’t seem to be available in the nearest time neither. Along with the book I also grabbed these general topic and mini books for my light readings:
Except for the Linux Pocket Guide that I finished reading in just a day, I’m not sure myself if I’ll ever finish reading the books. Not to mention the other books that are already in my colllection… I’m currently into the MySQL book, and hope to finish it in the nearest time. Gambatte shakir! 
