| Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page |  | Author: Janet Lowe
Publisher: Wiley
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bPraise for iGoogle Speaks/i/b p "It's not hard to see that Google is a phenomenal company....At Geico, we pay these guys a whole lot of money for this and that key word."br –bWarren Buffett/b p "Google rocks. It raised my perceived IQ by about 20 points."br –bWes Boyd/b, President of Moveon.Org p "Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval."br –bLloyd Grove/b, columnist, Portfolio.com p "Who's afraid of Google? Everyone."br –iWired/i magazine p "Writers of the past had absinthe, whiskey or heroin. I have Google."br –bMichael Chabon/b, author of iThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay/i
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 Good book, like to read it! August 1, 2010
Pedro P. M. Goes (Brasilia, Brazil)
This is the kind of book that I start to read and I can't stop. It covers a lot of google's history with details.
 So disorganized I returned it! December 2, 2009
A. R. Olson (Santa Cruz, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed in this book. I actually bought it from Borders, the local bookstore, instead of online so I could get a head-start at reading it. I got through the first two chapters with a lot of difficulty. The content skips around in a haphazard way and was very hard to follow. It seems like a lot of juicy information, but so disorganized that I could not move on. I did skim the rest of the book, and the first few paragraphs of each chapter followed suit. I ended up returning it to the bookstore for a full refund. I recommend searching for articles and videos on Google, as a company, online before buying this book.
A Fair Assessment of a Controversial Company October 25, 2009
John R. Sedivy (Cape Cod, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Google Speaks is the first "Speaks" book I have read, apparently there are two others - Warren Buffett Speaks and Jack Welch Speaks, both of which I plan on reading after having read this book. The style is conversational which makes it accessible for technologists and the general population alike. This book basically traces the roots of Google back to the childhood of the company's founders through the eyes of the founders, family, friends, colleagues, investors, and employees, which in total provide a comprehensive picture of Google and the culture within that company.
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br /Google Speaks is really rare in that it was over 300 pages, but felt like a short book as it is so engaging and conversational. What I really enjoyed about this book it that it felt very fair - at some points the company and it's leadership are praised, while at other times it is critical. The good, bad, and ugly are all presented here. There is much valuable content here - the Web 2.0, Web 3.0, and cloud computing personally stand out for me, as well as the glossary which provides a nice resource of Web (and Google specific) definitions.
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br /Great book for those interested in Google, a motivating success story, Internet search and advertising, or just a good, engaging story.
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 Google Speaks: what you need to know about Google September 24, 2009
Henry J. Lin (Pullman, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Janet Lowe, bestselling author, captures the billion dollar corporation that was once a school project on the campus of Standford. Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, had a vision of their Internet search engine. Today, that vision turned into a business colossus with an annual revenue of $16 billion dollars. Janet presents a easy-to-read description of the number one Internet search engine.
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br /Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google, was studying math at a college level when he was 15. After graduating from college in 3 years, he headed west to earn his Ph.D. Larry Page, the other co-founder of Google, was surrounded by computer at the age of 5. Every since then something latched on to him about computers. After graduating from University of Michigan, with a degree in computer engineering. Larry also decided to head west, to Standford University. What was a student project for their research paper, soon became a billion dollar corporation. It didn't happen overnight, but with lots of support from their colleagues Google is the Internet. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both now 36, have become the "King of the Internet."
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br /Larry and Sergey has a very strong connection with Standford University. Besides the fact that Standford was the starting point for their successful business. Standford is also Google's business partner, and let's not forget, Larry and Sergey both met their wives at Standford. One of Google's main assets, the PageRank patent, is owned by Standford University. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, taught business courses at Standford. Google's advisor, Professor Rajeev Montwani, was Sergey's Ph.D. advisor. As you can see, it is inevitable to associate Google without Standford.
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br /This book clearly reaches out to any entrepreneurs who are interested in success stories. It wasn't easy for Larry and Sergey to go public, they still faced difficulties as they tried to decide what to do. Although, they are successful entrepreneurs, it was their distinctive competency that set them apart from Microsoft and Yahoo!
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br /I gave this book four stars out of five. It was very easy-to-read and straight forward. But there are sections of the book that drags on and on. It is very informative to learn how Google was all started and all the process Larry and Sergey went to get to this point. They have brought internet marketing into a new level. There is only gossip for the future of Google, but by looking at all their current application. It is safe to say, they are reaching for nothing but extraordinary.
Factual blunder September 10, 2009
Edwinder Singh
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The read was certainly interesting and enlightening. Considering that I'm already a fan of Google, and somewhat know their journey of growth and fame. It contained things that were already well known to me, but some smaller facts which I found quite interesting. The whole book suddenly discredited itself when I found a simple factual blunder, which simply discredited any other facts that may have been in there. Janet Lowe is suddenly discredited as just another author who's out there to make a quick buck by not researching extensively. Extremely disappointing especially when she probably 'goggled' everything else to write this book.
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