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Google is the world’s most visited website and most valuable brand. Beginning its life as a mere search engine, the company has grown into a massive IT conglomerate. Founded in 1998, the company is a tech pioneer in research and development, innovation, and mergers and acquisitions. As it has grown even more pervasive, Google has faced a backlash on such issues as privacy, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship and search neutrality. It’s now difficult to imagine a world without Google and its products. So what makes this technological giant tick?
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Summaries
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants
HarperCollins Leadership, 2021
The Great A.I. Awakening
How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services – and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
The New York Times Magazine, 2016
Google Searches Its Soul
Inside the Search Giant's Effort to Get More Diverse - and to Change the Way We All See the World.
Fortune, 2017
Trillion Dollar Coach
The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
HarperBusiness, 2019
Google’s Featured Snippets Are Worse than Fake News
The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad.
Outline, 2017
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
The Atlantic, 2017
How Google Took Over the Classroom
The tech giant is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps. But schools may be giving Google more than they are getting.
The New York Times, 2017
Tristan Harris, 2016
