Search No Further: The Story of Eric Schmidt and GoogleEric Schmidt made a move that surprised many in dot-com circles when he became the chief executive officer of Google, the phenomenally successful web search engine.Google had quickly garnered a cult following for its clean interface and speedy results, and was set to become the high-tech industry's next stellar financial success.Schmidt, a veteran of computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems and Novell, the software maker,was considered the ideal visionary to guide Google into a period of growth and maturation as a business.Schmidt was born in 1955 and graduated from Princeton University in 1976 with a degree in electrical engineering.He then earned a graduate degree in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a doctorate in computer science from there as well.In 1983 he was hired at Sun Microsystems, a Silicon Valley computer maker that was still a very young company.
