Google Founders to Have Their Story Told, Too

Buzz over the release of October’s The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook, has paved the way for another story about geeks who changed the world.

Producers John Morris and Michael London have acquired the screen rights to “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” a non-fiction book written by Ken Auletta about Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

However, the story of Brin and Page isn’t one of turmoil, like Facebook’s, but a cooperative effort by two Stanford Ph.D students who suspended their college careers to create a better search engine.  They now share a spot as the 24th richest people in the world, each worth roughly $17.5 billion.

At the core is your typical rags-to-riches story of technological success in a growing digital world, but what makes their history particularly intriguing is the impact Google is having on old media now that anyone can search and pop up news, video, music, and books.  (Even this book, by the way.)

What remains to be seen is if Morris and London will push for references to the current net neutrality debate and the pending proposal from Google Verizon.  You know, the debate that has many people questioning Google’s slogan (“Don’t Be Evil”).  Probably not, since “the intention is to be sympathetic to Sergey and Larry” and not the honest approach David Fincher’s The Social Network is taking.  Perhaps this would work better as a documentary…