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Google LLC ( , GOO-ghəl) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and is one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the field of AI. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. is one of the five Big Tech companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's internet properties and interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. On December 3, 2019, Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet. The company has since rapidly grown to offer a multitude of products and services beyond Google Search, many of which hold dominant market positions. These products address a wide range of use cases, including email (Gmail), navigation (Waze & Maps), cloud computing (Cloud), web navigation (Chrome), video sharing (YouTube), productivity (Workspace), operating systems (Android), cloud storage (Drive), language translation (Translate), photo storage (Photos), videotelephony (Meet), smart home (Nest), smartphones (Pixel), wearable technology (Pixel Watch & Fitbit), music streaming (YouTube Music), video on demand (YouTube TV), AI (Google Assistant & Gemini), machine learning APIs (TensorFlow), AI chips (TPU), and more. Discontinued Google products include gaming (Stadia), Glass, Google+, Reader, Play Music, Nexus, Hangouts, and Inbox by Gmail. Google's other ventures outside of internet services and consumer electronics include quantum computing (Sycamore), self-driving cars (Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project), smart cities (Sidewalk Labs), and transformer models (Google DeepMind). Google and YouTube are the two most-visited websites worldwide followed by Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter). Google is also the largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, online video platform, photo and cloud storage provider, mobile operating system, web browser, machine learning framework, and AI virtual assistant provider in the world as measured by market share. On the list of most valuable brands, Google is ranked second by Forbes and fourth by Interbrand. It has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, antitrust and abuse of its monopoly position. History Early years Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the original lead programmer who wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was officially founded as a company; Hassan went on to pursue a career in robotics and founded the company Willow Garage in 2006. While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, they theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites. They called this algorithm PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site. Page told his ideas to Hassan, who began writing the code to implement Page's ideas. Page and Brin originally nicknamed the new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Hassan as well as Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeffrey Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project. PageRank was influenced by a similar page-ranking and site-scoring algorithm earlier used for RankDex, developed by Robin Li in 1996, with Larry Page's PageRank patent including a citation to Li's earlier RankDex patent; Li later went on to create the Chinese search engine Baidu. Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine was a misspelling of the word googol, a very large number written 10100 (1 followed by 100 zeros), picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. Google was initially funded by an August 1998 investment of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. This initial investment served as a motivation to incorporate the company to be able to use the funds. Page and Brin initially approached David Cheriton for advice because he had a nearby office in Stanford, and they knew he had startup experience, having recently sold the company he co-founded, Granite Systems, to Cisco for $220 million. David arranged a meeting with Page and Brin and his Granite co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. The meeting was set for 8 a.m. at the front porch of David's home in Palo Alto and it had to be brief because Andy had another meeting at Cisco, where he now worked after the acquisition, at 9 a.m. Andy briefly tested a demo of the website, liked what he saw, and then went back to his car to grab the check. David Cheriton later also joined in with a $250,000 investment. Google received money from two other angel investors in 1998: Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and entrepreneur Ram Shriram. Page and Brin had first approached Shriram, who was a venture capitalist, for funding and counsel, and Shriram invested $250,000 in Google in February 1998. Shriram knew Bezos because Amazon had acquired Junglee, at which Shriram was the president. It was Shriram who told Bezos about Google. Bezos asked Shriram to meet Google's founders and they met six months after Shriram had made his investment when Bezos and his wife were on a vacation trip to the Bay Area. Google's initial funding round had already formally closed but Bezos' status as CEO of Amazon was enough to persuade Page and Brin to extend the round and accept his investment. Between these initial investors, friends, and family Google raised aroun.... Discover the Google popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Google books.
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The Third Wave
Steve CaseThe #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Steve Casethe cofounder of AOLpresents “a compelling roadmap for the future…that can help us make sense of the technol...
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GOOGLE ADWORDS SETUP GUIDE
MangoPublicWelcome to your guide to setting up and managing Google Adwords. We’ll keep it as simple as possible to get you up and running in this setup guide, bringing in highly qualified lea...
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Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerNew York Times BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerThe team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business exe...
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Search Inside Yourself
Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman & Jon Kabat-ZinnWith Search Inside Yourself, ChadeMeng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intellige...
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Never Google Heartbreak
Emma Garcia‘I can't recommend this highly entertaining book enough it's clever, witty and downright hilarious.’ I Heart Chick Lit Viv’s exfiancé, Rob, proposed to her three months afte...
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Managing Google Chrome
Mesha DanielThe book explains and illustrates some of the basic features in the Internet browser, Google Chrome. Readers will learn how to customize settings, set up printers and create,...
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Lion
Saroo BrierleyFirst it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it’s Lion, a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney ...
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Burn Book
Kara SwisherInstant New York Times BestsellerFrom awardwinning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change t...
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Elon Musk
Ashlee VanceA New York Times BestsellerIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s mos...
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Solve for Happy
Mo GawdatIn this “powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek” (Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google), Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], applies his ...
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Cryptonomicon
Neal StephensonWith this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epochmaking masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba & Bryan MealerNow a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a SlaveWilliam Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. I...
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The Culture Code
Daniel CoyleNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Talent Code unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow’s leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, mo...
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Life After Google
George GilderA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophica...
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The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman & Michael BhaskarNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fastdeveloping technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain ...
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Forbidden Falls
Robyn CarrWelcome back to Virgin River with the books that started it all…Reverend Noah Kincaid moved to Virgin River to reopen an abandoned church he bought on eBay. Like Noah, the place is...
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The Four
Scott GallowayNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLERAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks t...
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Everybody Lies
Seth Stephens-DavidowitzForeword by Steven PinkerBlending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty lo...
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The St. James Affair
Susan WiggsExperience the magical romance of a New York Christmas in this classic tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs…Elaine St. James has it alla thriving career as an...
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The Everything Store
Brad Stone"An immersive playbyplay of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story." Laura Bennett, New Republic Amazon.com's visionary founde...
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Google Classroom
Andrea HalversonA quick guide to get teachers started using Google Classroom. Complete with directions, screenshots, and video directions where applicable.
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Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman“Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introd...
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The Circle
Dave EggersINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our livesa “compulsively readable parable...
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The Ultimate Guide to Google Sheets
Matthew GuayIt's easy enough to list your expenses in a spreadsheet, use =sum(A1:A20) to see how much you spent, and add a graph to compare your expenses. It's also easy to use a spreadsheet t...
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The Square and the Tower
Niall FergusonThe instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierar...
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Google Calendar
Cathy WiegmanI created this book for the staff at my school who are still in the learning process this year with Google Calendars. I hope this gives them some help!
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Vonage to Google Voice
Matt HaasWith careful planning and a little bit of patience, it is possible to port your phone number from Vonage to Google Voice. This step by step guide will show you everything you need ...
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After Steve
Tripp MickleFrom the New York Times' Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenantsJony Ive, the Chief Design Offic...
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How Google Works
Eric Schmidt & Jonathan RosenbergSeasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google, from its business history and disruptive corporate strategy to developing a new...
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Dataclysm
Christian RudderA New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behaviorand a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on u...
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Google Apps for Education
Messmer Catholic Schools Technology DepartmentThis book is designed to familiarize faculty, staff and students about the software applications that are available to them as a part of their Google Apps for Education account.
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Measure What Matters
John Doerr#1 New York Times BestsellerLegendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goalsetting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from In...
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Altered Starscape
Ian DouglasGalaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, as the last humans in the universe face off against a new threat2162. Thirtyeight years after first ...
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron LanierAS SEEN IN THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY THE SOCIAL DILEMMA A WIRED "ALLTIME FAVORITE BOOK" A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK "THE CONSCIENCE OF SILICON VALLEY" GQ “Profound . . . Lanier s...
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Google Sites Simplified
Lauren BoucherThe time to develop a positive digital footprint is now. This book will take you through the steps of creating a website using Google Sites with stepbystep directions, lots o...
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Tubes
Andrew Blum“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”Tom Vanderb...
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Paperless Classroom with Google Drive
Steve DickieThis guide was created to help teachers and students learn how to use Google Drive. Much of the material was adapted from Jonathan Wylie's The Paperless iPad Classroom with the Goo...
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The Industries of the Future
Alec RossThe New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future wil...
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana ZuboffThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerfu...
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A Town Called Valentine
Emma CaneWill leave you smiling long after you’ve closed the last page.”Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author of The First Love Cookie ClubSmall towns, rugged cowboy heroes, and pas...
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Mastering Online Marketing
Magnus UnemyrMastering Online Marketing is the most comprehensive and uptodate book available on advanced web marketing. It reveals the secrets that can help take your Internet marketing to a n...
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The Zen of Google
Me, Myself & Idoubt fear anger ZEN Discover the ZEN of Google to help your business today!!