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So the value of the content on a page, its relevance to anyone who might be looking for information, is determined by what the world thinks if that information. It bothers me how little real knowledge most of these tech writers have about the companies they cover. Those are just four of the problems that Google, the search engine company, has taken on. The Globe and Mail ' s book review mentions that although Auletta was granted access to Google's executives, his book does not reveal many unexpected details. Their fundamental technological advancement was an algorithm, PageRank, that determined the importance of a Web page by considering in part how many other pages linked to it. The company's activities in China, and its public agonising about them, made them look as if they put profits above ethics, but wanted to be admired for feeling uncomfortable about the fact. Some of these, like Google's intention of scanning the world's books, really illustrate the big thinking and gee-whiz factor that only engineers and scientists seem able to do.

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These search engines also tried to keep users from leaving their pages.

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta

auleta Auletta gives a matter-of-fact answer to the first question, which turns out to auletat not all that interesting basically, after tooling around for years, the company hit on a magic googles for linking the placement of ads to search results, and for charging advertisers - once this monetization scheme - google adwords - was in place, profits soared. The last half of the book jumped back and forth between years, repeated sentiments from earlier in the book, threw in a lot of quotes from random people, and was generally difficult to follow.

I know Googled presents a rather eclectic history of Google, starting from its inception and ending late Certainly not an edge of your seat kind of book, but I really enjoyed reviewing recent history and understanding the backgrounds of the major players. Eric Schmidt comes across as plain-spoken, Sergey and Larry as fairly nerdly, and the company as large and slightly chaotic… which seems about right from my point-of- A pretty decent history of how Google got to be where it googped now.

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That's not the same thing as saying it is an unequivocal force for good. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Whenever the talk turns to something technological, it becomes painfully aulftta to read.

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However - maybe it's a subject for another book, but I always find it lacking when authors like this don't seem to have interviewed hardly any rank-and-file employees. He suggests that in a similar fashion to the prefect in Poe's story who could not locate the letter although it was in plain sight, it took the media company executives untilwhen Google issued its initial public offeringto first realise the magnitude of Google's digital power. What if all the books in the world were digitized and available from a computer - as a kind of 'super librarian'?

I found it quite objective on Google and not one-sided. Also by Ken Auletta. More people will read it and get excited about it". Aug 21, Jenny's Book Life rated it really liked it Shelves: As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses?

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googped Aug 13, Katrina rated it it was ok Shelves: Along the way one learns a lot about new mediaenough to realize that a lot of it is old media in drag and that the vast majority of it is exploiting only one aspect of the Internet. The other big problem that I had with this book is that it provides an inordinate amount of space to other companies and business developments in recent years.

OK, what I'm about to do is pretty unfair to the author but For all it's success, the author quotes a few spectacular failures such as the Uber Fund LCTM created by Nobel Laureates that failed spectacularly for, as the author notes His Life and Universe and Benjamin Franklin: Excellent overview of this history of Google and all the major changes we've seen in many industries because of it. By all accounts Auletta had unprecedented access to insiders at Google, including its two boy-wonder founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Using Google as a stand-in for the digital revolution, Auletta takes readers inside Google? Instead of making one data base accessible, they made the entire Web accessible.

Auletta seems to think that Google's engineering culture is problematic because it leads to PR blunders or angers competitors. Unfortunately, that story, the only instance of innovation described, is not told in any detail in the book.

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

Yet there are many obstacles that threaten Google? This includes mu A more accurate subtitle for Ken Auletta's "Googled" might have been "the end of advertising and media distribution as we know it," which indicates the less ambitious scope and not particularly sexy subject matter of his book. Auletta's superbly reported book is fair and balanced but it offers little to contradict the view that the company has little understanding of the businesses it is trying to disrupt.

Fine, I thought, maybe it'll be an insightful analysis looking at Google from the outside. The Globe and Mail. There's probably a very interesting story about the algorithm.