The Google Boys

The Google Boys
Author: George Beahm
Publisher: Agate Pub Incorporated
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781932841886

A collection of thought-provoking direct quotes from Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, on topics related to business, entrepreneurship, and life.

The Google Boys: Sergey Brin and Larry Page in Their Own Words

The Google Boys: Sergey Brin and Larry Page in Their Own Words
Author: George Beahm
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-12-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789351770053

Google is arguably the most influential company in the world today. Just fifteen years old, it touches the lives of millions globally through the 13 billion searches on its site every month. With its finger on the pulse of the Internet, it understands its consumers more intimately than any company could hope for. The brainchild of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google is now engaged in frontline research to push the limits of how we live - whether it is the Google Glass, driverless cars or extending human life. There could be no greater lesson in building up from scratch a model company that people aspire to work for, a giant with the third-highest market value: $382 billion as of May 2014. How does a company get to be the world's go-to people? Who better to speak of it than Brin and Page? Businesspeople at all levels will find their visionary thoughts on work principles, company culture, leadership and life lessons useful. Their ideas will open up unexplored avenues for further innovation. And as the introduction says, if you want more information, you can always Google it!

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Author: James M. Flammang
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1602792054

Discover how Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two ordinary computer science graduate students at Stanford University, but together, created Google, the world's most powerful information search engine on the Internet. Readers will learn about the power of innovation, creativity and tech smarts.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Author: Harry Henderson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Biography
ISBN: 9781438198491

When Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborated on the search engine Google, they didn't realize that their invention would soon become so ingrained in web culture that its name would be used as a verb.

Let's Go Invent Tomorrow

Let's Go Invent Tomorrow
Author: Jessica Easto
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1572848103

Start every day ready for success with this book of thought-provoking quotations from Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, and many others. Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow features 365 inspiring quotations that are packed with insights on business, management, and leadership from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. Drawing the most compelling and inspiring quotations from the popular In Their Own Words series, this book provides future leaders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and business professionals with a full year’s worth of advice and perspective from visionaries such as Steve Jobs, Jack Ma, Warren Buffett, and more. The In Their Own Words series highlights entrepreneurs who have built influential companies from the ground up, and whose contributions have changed the way business is done around the world.

Google It

Google It
Author: Anna Crowley Redding
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250148219

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.

Google Boys

Google Boys
Author: C. W. Cooke
Publisher:
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It is undeniable the influence Google has had. The company filters into every aspect of our lives--whether we are searching for information, using a map to navigate to a destination, or shopping online. "Sergey Brin and Larry Page: The Creators of Google" introduces readers to the two men that have put the world at our fingertips.

Geek and Hacker Stories

Geek and Hacker Stories
Author: Brian Alleyne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2018-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349958190

Geeks, hackers and gamers share a common ‘geek culture’, whose members are defined and define themselves mainly in terms of technology and rationality. The members of geek culture produce and circulate stories to express who they are and to explain and justify what they do. Geek storytelling draws on plots and themes from the wider social and cultural context in which geeks live. The author surveys many stories of heated exchanges and techno-tribal conflicts that date back to the earliest days of personal computing, which construct the “self” and the “enemy”, and express and debate a range of political positions. Geek and Hacker Stories will be of interest to students of digital social science and media studies. Both geeky and non-technical readers will find something of value in this account.

Famous Immigrant Computer Scientists

Famous Immigrant Computer Scientists
Author: Donna M. Bozzone, Ph.D.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766095924

Computers and technology play central roles in our lives for work, entertainment, communication, and information management. It is difficult to imagine a time without these tools and even harder to envision living without them now. How were these wonderful toys of technology created? Who is developing future innovations? Think of some of the most famous and familiar services and platforms: Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook. Did you know that immigrants such as Sundar Pichai, Jerry Yang, and Jan Kuom, are the creative engines behind these tech juggernauts? This book tells the story of seven of the amazing Americans changing our world.

The Google Story

The Google Story
Author: David A. Vise
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2017-01-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1509859640

The Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google's thirty-five year old founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have in ten years taken Google from being just another internet start-up to a company with a market value of over US$80 billion. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to the inner workings of Google, this book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has become so familiar its name is used as a verb around the world. But even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in a business that changes at lightning speed. In this new and updated edition to celebrate Google’s 10th birthday, David A. Vise has written a new preface and new final chapter which look at further developments since 2005 and how Google will continue to expand and innovate while trying to follow its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL 'If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise's assiduously researched The Google Story is for you.' Sunday Telegraph 'If Google were to take on critical faculties as well as its other attributes Vise's book would probably come out on top.' The Times