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Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
Google it : a history of Google
ISBN:
9781250148223
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : Feiwel and Friends, [2018]
Physical Description:
231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Sergey Brin -- Larry Page.

Part 1. Frenemies + Homework + Legos = Google?. A cold, hard, Google-less world -- Frenemies: Fight@1stSight -- Sergey Brin -- Larry Page -- Homework -- Backlinks -- Beg, borrow, stalk -- Gates 360 office tour -- The long-lost nightmare: search before Google -- PageRank -- Liftoff -- Let me give you a little advice ... -- #Spelling -- Grad school dropouts -- America's most misspelled words -- Google World Headquarters -- The power of the (almost) blank page -- Don't mind if I doo-dle -- Rules are for breaking -- Let's make a deal -- Read my mind -- Y2K -- Google News -- Rallying cry -- Perhaps advertising isn't as evil as we thought ... -- Scale -- Google Shopping -- Parental supervision -- Show me the money -- Going once, going twice, sold! -- Rank 2.0 -- The picture that launched a thousand lines of code -- Part 2. Google it!. Googler (person who works at Google) -- Life as a Googler -- Give /100/ 20 percent -- TGIF -- Google World Headquarters (for real) -- Google Books -- That's no joke! -- A Google-y mess -- GOOG -- Google Earth -- Troubled waters -- Barrier broken -- Verb -- Verb+ -- Life before Google Maps -- YouTube -- Going mobile -- Maps + gaming = gold, I tell you. GOLD! -- Beyond search: the recipe for alphabet soup -- A is for Alphabet -- All (almost) impossible code challenge -- Part 3. Impossible goal + attempt (+/-success) = moonshot -- A healthy disregard for the impossible -- The brain -- Robots + AI = The robots are coming! The robots are coming! -- Send in the cars -- Not to drone on ... but! -- Wear it! -- Could I get some assistance? -- U Is for UFO -- Shoot for the Moon -- Eternal life: the final frontier -- Verily we go along -- The more we change, the more we stay the same.
Summary:
Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world's information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential and innovative companies in the world. The word "google" has even entered our vocabulary as a verb. Now, find out the true history of Google from its humble beginnings as a thesis project made out of "borrowed" hardware and discount toys through its revolution of the world's relationship with technology to a brief glimpse of where they might take us next. In Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and most importantly, of shooting for the moon in order to change the world.
Reading Level:
Ages 12-18.
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