Beating the odds: now that frivolity has killed many a start-up, relaxed management, on-site restaurants, and in-house massages seem like dot-com death wishes. Google.com proves otherwise--thanks to top-rate technology, a rare sales model, and an aggressive vision for what's ahead. (Cover Story)

It's 11 a.m. on a fall Thursday in Silicon Valley and Sergey Brin, the 28-year-old cofounder and president of Google.com, isn't exactly tearing up the streets on his morning commute--via […]