The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time (Paperback)
暫譯: 谷歌故事:揭開當代最熱門的商業、媒體與科技成功案例

David A. Vise, Mark Malseed

  • 出版商: Delta
  • 出版日期: 2006-08-29
  • 售價: $630
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$617
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 336
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0553383663
  • ISBN-13: 9780553383669
  • 相關分類: 科技科普 Technology
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商品描述

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.

The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.

In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.

While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database.

Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL."

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這是我們這個時代最引人注目的網路成功故事之一。這本書基於嚴謹的研究和對 Google 的非凡接觸,帶你深入了解這家公司的創建與成長,這個名字已成為全球知名的品牌和標準動詞。它的市值超過通用汽車和福特的總和,員工在一個曾由 Grateful Dead 的前主廚經營的餐廳中免費用餐,並且員工們在公司色彩繽紛的矽谷校園中騎著滑板車和直排輪滑行。

《The Google Story》是這家由世界上最先進技術驅動的民眾媒體公司的權威記錄,這家公司在短短幾年內徹底改變了每個人隨時隨地獲取資訊的方式。

1998年,出生於莫斯科的 Sergey Brin 和出生於中西部的 Larry Page 退學於史丹佛大學的研究生院,為了用他們自己的話說,透過一個能免費整理網路上每一點資訊的搜尋引擎來「改變世界」。

雖然這家公司已經在超過一百種語言中實現了這一目標,但 Google 的探索仍在繼續,因為它希望將數百萬本圖書、電視廣播等納入其可搜尋的資料庫。

讀者將了解到啟動這家公司驚人旅程的商業智慧和電腦技術;提供閃電般快速搜尋結果的秘密電腦網絡;以及使其能夠挑戰微軟的主導地位並顛覆華爾街的非傳統方法。即使在高峰時期,Google 仍面臨艱難的選擇,以便在持續擴張的同時維持創始人座右銘的指導願景:不作惡。