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Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know (2008)

by Randall E. Stross(Favorite Author)
3.53 of 5 Votes: 2
ISBN
141654691X (ISBN13: 9781416546917)
languge
English
publisher
Free Press
review 1: من( كراج صغير الى امبراطورية)قصة لا تقتصر على جووجل فقطابل امازونمايكروسوفتهيوليت باكرد ديزني وورلدكلهـا بـدأت مـن كـراج واغـلـب شـركات وادي السليكون بدأت من غرف صغيرة مستأجرةصلب الكتاب حول نشأة جووجل والظروف التي ساعدت او اعاقت نموها ثم يناقش الكتاب مواضيع متعددة في صناعة التكنولوجيا والخلافات الفلسفية في رؤية الشركات الكبرى لقضاية كثيرةمنها الخصوصية الانفتاح والانغلاق في كتابة اكواد البرمجيات حقوق الطبع والنشر البحث ب�... more�ستخدام الخورزمية فقط ام بتدخل بشريمجانية الوصول الى المعلومة -مقابل المعلومة اثمن من ان تؤخذ مجاناً نوعاً ما لطيف
review 2: I'm on this Google fascination lately. Try to think about life before Google, or life without Google...well, it's literally impossible to imagine (for me). Even grasping our reliance on Internet in general is enough to blow my mind. Whether that's good or bad, I haven't decided. But I have decided one thing: to embrace all the good things that Google has to offer. Google Earth alone is out of this world (literally, they cover the moon and the stars!!) Afterall, a company whose motto is "Don't be Evil" can't be all that bad. Can it? (Actually, the true motto is "You can make money without doing evil" - still, I can respect that.) I realize Google knows more about me than my parents do, and I can live with that. Here's my sci-fi influence -- When (okay, "if") the computers start taking over the world (a la The Terminator or Battlestar Galactica) I wouldn't be surprised if that artificial intelligence will somehow be tied into Google, am I right? Google folks claim they will have all the world's information organized in 200-300 years. But at the rate they are going I doubt it's going to take that long. John Connor, pay attention. Back to this book -- I won't claim to fully understand everything it describes. Their cutting-edge search algorithim (fascinating but way over my head), their competition with MicroSoft, the "scandal" that searching email caused in the early days. It's a trip down memory lane. A lot has evolved since this book was published (2008) but as a non-techie I found it readable, insightful, and non-judgmental. A bit dry, but not too painful. less
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Beth
Although dated, it explained Google's philosophy and was actually quite interesting.
Steve
Informative and a good read
drmanojkamthan
Good, but needs an update.
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