one company's audacious plan to organize everything we know
Stross, Randall E
2009
Describes the growth and development of Google's plan to organize everything we know as it already controls sixty-eight percent of all Web searches and profits. Discusses how Google contains an array of new services along with a wireless phone spectrum as well as other related business.
A guide to using the Google search engine that explains how to perform a wide variety of tasks using Google and offers tips and tools to help people search for answers faster.
secrets of the world's greatest billionaire entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Lowe, Janet
2009
Details the history of Google Inc., and discusses the philosophies and values of founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and describes their chosen lifestyles, the corporate culture they created, partnerships with various organizations, and more.
Looks at the uses of the Google search engine as an educational tool, identifying and describing over two dozen applications for teachers and students, and including standards-based lessons.
The author voices his concerns with Google's plans to scan the book collections of six major university libraries into a keyword-searchable online index.
Provides ideas, techniques, and resources to effectively search the internet and is intended for librarians, teachers, students, writers, and professionals.