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Built for Success

The Story of Google

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Did you know...The first official Google office was in a garage that Larry and Sergey rented from a friend?Larry Page and Sergey Brin met on the Stanford University campus in 1995. Soon they began working together on a project to download the entire World Wide Web and figure out a way to search it using links, as a possible doctoral thesis. Many budget and design issues later, Google became an officially incorporated company.We bring you the story about the origins, leaders, growth and products of Google, the Internet company that was founded in 1998 and is today the world’s favorite online search engine.JAICO’S CREATIVE COMPANIES SERIES explores how today’s great companies operate and inspires young readers to become the entrepreneurs and businessmen of tomorrow.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2008

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29 reviews12 followers
May 15, 2016
A short yet crisp description on how the biggest search engine and probably a revolution of sorts was established and functions on a daily basis.
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101 reviews2 followers
May 23, 2021
📍 18th Book read in 2021.
📍 Paperback
📍 42 minutes reading time.
📍 4 reading sessions.

This story made me think where Google was and where it is now. It takes lot's of courage and tenacity to make their dreams a reality. At some point, someone said there will be competitors for Google very soon, but now we are in 2021, and still couldn't find a better competitor for Google yet.

#Google #GoogleSearch #StoryOfGoogle #AvishkaReads
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10 reviews
August 21, 2019
Short and Crisp

All you can wrap around ur head in just 70 pages..
Have a go and lay hand on this for a short commute.
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111 reviews3 followers
December 19, 2021
The Story of Google by Sara Gilbert a short easy read highlighting facts from its startup days in the garage to the big tech giant it is now. #LoveToRead #BookLovers #atozentrepreneurship #dntjbookclub
126 reviews
December 21, 2013
A beautiful dwarfed book as cute as the name of the company reveals many inside facts about Google’s humble beginning to its present day’s status of being one of the most admired companies of the world, within a span of ten years. The vision of the founders Sergy Brin and Larry Page coupled with the experience of Eric Schmidt as their CEO, has taken the world by surprise in the search engine category of business with its delightful products like Google, Froogle, Gmail, AdSense, GTalk, Google Play, Google News, Google 101,You Tube etc and many more surprises to come in near future which might catapult the company to astronomical heights and challenge the existence of giants in the industry.

Positives: Many facts about Google, its founders, beautiful photographs of Google’s start-up garage, its offices, and the view of Silicon Valley are worth seeing in this book. The author must be congratulated for her research in writing this short story very effectively, without much crap. One should read this book if you want to know about the true meaning of Google, Googleplex and the 20 percent creativity.

Negatives: The layout of the book is targeted at Young readers specifically.

My rating is 4 out of 5
3 reviews
December 12, 2014
It is a pretty interesting book if you are looking to learn a bit about how Google started, and how it went through different stages of development. It rose from a Dorm-room venture to a huge office in Mountain View, California.
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241 reviews4 followers
September 1, 2014
A dwarf book. But inspirational.
This made me crave to join Google somehow.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are you both listening?
Sigh.
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3 reviews14 followers
January 15, 2016
The book barely skimmed over the propitious start of the tech giant. Was looking forward to plunge in a little more deep; nonetheless, an interesting short read.
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