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The Google Story is a book by David Vise and Mark Malseed that takes an in-depth look at the founding of Google and why it is unique among information technology companies. The book discusses the founders, the company, and the culture that Google is known for. It was published on November 15, 2005.
Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project ...
Google also hosts Google Books, a service which searches the text found in books in its database and shows limited previews or and the full book where allowed. [146] Google expanded its search services to include shopping (launched originally as Froogle in 2002), [147] finance (launched 2006), [148] and flights (launched 2011). [149]
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Page was an avid reader during his youth, writing in his 2013 Google founders letter: "I remember spending a huge amount of time pouring [sic] over books and magazines". [33] According to writer Nicholas Carlson, the combined influence of Page's home atmosphere and his attentive parents "fostered creativity and invention".
Founding Fathers (1959) by Alfred Duggan. Originally titled Children of the Wolf, this novel tells the story of King Romulus and the founding of Rome through the eyes of a variety of characters who come to the new city. Roma (2007) by Steven Saylor. According to the author's website, the book covers part of Rome's early history. [1]
Nevertheless, he praised the book's writing style, proclaiming Infamous Scribblers an "interesting and useful" book and a "pleasurable introduction" to the topic of early American journalism. [ 8 ] Publishers Weekly considered the book entertaining, mentioning the author's enthusiasm and the mixture of familiar and little-known stories, but ...
[101] [102] Based on its 2012 income of $5 billion ($6.64 billion in 2023 dollars [49]), Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time in May 2013, ranked 462. [103] The shares set a first-day record for trading volume of an IPO (460 million shares). [104]