Book Summary
The Google Story
Content Summary
- Introduction (What is the major theme of the book?)
The book as the name implies is about the story of Google, is all about Google from the very beginning, the process from being a crazy idea from two students a.k.a Larry and Sergey that wanted to create a better searcher with accurate information and in the process creating a new system for searches called “PageRank”, that provides what users want instead of looking what can take money from them. Also about how they succeed on the market with their primary goal users’ satisfaction and always doing things as the way they wanted and always trying to keep control of the company to still being first the customer then the profits. And, how Google become the first place around the world on the subject of search, being available in more than 100 languages and creating opportunities to all size businesses to have ads on Google and the opportunity to anyone to buy shares without any preference all being equal, changing the way “Wall Street” does. In conclusion this book is about Google a company that were founded by two students that weren’t looking for fame or money just wanted users have a quality searcher to satisfy their need.
Best Chapter
Well, I really like the book, most of the chapters are good but if I have to choose, I will say two chapters liked more than the others “Divide and Conquer” and “Aprils Fool”. I am going to talk first of “Divide and Conquer”, at the begging of the chapter Larry Page said something that caught my attention “We started this company because we were unhappy with the current search technology and if we succeed, that just will be a great side effect” . When I read it I was amazed because most of the people think first what they receive for doing something, in this case Larry and Sergey just care to satisfy their need and other users