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How Google Works
- felipelalli 12y agoI read "Now Google works". I thought to myself, finally!
- TheBiv 12y agoIt's pretty interesting to me that Amazon is not an available format for downloading the digital version, but iBooks is (as well as Google Play and B&N). I wonder if that is a publisher choice or an author choice? Looks like an awesome book!
- kawsper 12y agoSadly, it doesn't look like there is a .mobi version available :/ Anyone with an idea on how to get this on a Kindle?
- lavingiasa 12y agoYou can convert to .mobi with programs like Calibre.
- jiggy2011 12y agoI was hoping for something more technical.
- thearn4 12y agoI guess a part of me was expecting a re-direct to the wikipedia article on PageRank.
- blauwbilgorgel 12y agoPerhaps: http://www.google.com/intl/en/insidesearch/howsearchworks/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/insidesearch/howsearchworks/
- IBM 12y agoI found his Google+ post related to this supremely ironic and hilarious. https://plus.google.com/+EricSchmidt/posts/EHwUGHrAPGi https://plus.google.com/+EricSchmidt/posts/EHwUGHrAPGi
- razfar 12y agowhere is Amazon?
- dlevine 12y agoThe reason why it isn't available on Amazon is that it's published by Hachette. I looked up the book on Barnes and Noble, and the publisher is listed as Grand Central Publishing. A Google Search for "Grand Central Publishing" reveals that it's part of Hachette (http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/publishers/grand-central-publishing/ http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/publishers/grand-central-pu...).
- dlevine 12y agoSo, the answer for all those trying to figure out how to get it on Kindle is to wait until it is released, and then it should be available on Amazon (and hopefully Kindle).
- benstein 12y agoPresumably Audible as well
- bellerocky 12y agoHrm, so it's not available at all? I figured it would just be late in shipping?
- fuzzywalrus 12y agoLooks like the Hachette war has spilled into Audible as well, the audiobook version doesn't list Audible either. Side note: The bottom of the page has a few interesting choice quotes: For example: ""Think 10X, not 10%. Global scale is available to just about everyone. But too many people are stuck in the old, limited mindset." Sounds like they're describing a certain rival who only owns a fragment of the mobile OS space.
- gojomo 12y agoCritics, pranksters, and culture-jammers, hurry: howgoogleREALLYworks[.net|.com|.org] ...are all still available!
- M2Ys4U 12y agodon't forget the .business .computer .consulting .education .engineer[ing] .expert .guide .guru .industries .marketing .technology or to use a domain hack: howgooglereally.works!
- panarky 12y agoForget the 'really'. The .org is still available. Occupy Google could snatch up howgoogleworks.org, copy the .net content and do a quick and dirty parody site.
- gojomo 12y agoGood thing they're all at Burning Man.
- OzzyB 12y agoOpen page, ctrl + f: 'creative' = 6 results. ctrl + f: 'engineer' = 0 results. Oh I see, you creatives now. I guess it's time to revise some history and let the world know that you weren't just a bunch of super smart engineers... you were creatives along! So, do I still need to take that code test? Or can I give you that link to my portfolio page?
- hawkice 12y agoFrom the page: "Who are these smart creatives? They’re the product-minded people who combine technical knowledge, business expertise, and creativity." That doesn't seem like revising history as much as trying to sell a book. If you have the The Solution (tm), you likely have fancy non-traditional terms.
- fein 12y agoOne of the lessons of business should be that "The Solution" is never found in a single book. I honestly find this publication tacky.
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- revskill 12y agoWithout the search engine, Google is nothing. Period.
- dredmorbius 12y agoThe irony being that in trying to be everything else as well, Google's driven me away from search.
- TezzellEnt 12y agoI'll have to respectfully disagree. While search is their main product, with AdWords being their main source of income, Google also has maps, local, docs/drive, gmail, google play, wallet, android, etc. While it wouldn't be a 'giant' without search, search definitely helped increase adoption of their other products and gave them revenue to invest into other things (plus their moonshots).
- aikah 12y agomost of these product being ad driven,with the exception of some cloud services,though I really doubt Goggle win that much money on google/drive. It can however scan your files for "metadatas"
- donw 12y agoI'm not sure how helpful this will be to a lot of new and aspiring business-owners. In my work, I've had to spend a lot of time reminding both engineers and business-types that You Are Not Google. Engineers are particularly bad on this front. I've seen teams blow huge amounts of time building massive, distributed, fail-over systems, because that's what Google does. Even though the load could be handled by a couple of dedicated boxes, and existing customers are screaming for crucial functionality. Scaling is a problem you deal with when your growth rate says you have to -- not when your servers are sitting idle, waiting for a sudden rush of customers will come any day now. There's nothing wrong trying to learn as much as you can from a bunch of smart people, but that's not the same as copying the things that they've done because "it worked for them and they're successful now". Statistically speaking, your company is probably a lot smaller than Google, and you have very different problems than Google does.
- jamesaguilar 12y agoThese sorts of mistakes get made even at google. Not every product is websearch.
- donw 12y agoTrue. I think the problem is that, when blinded by the "we're going to be huuuuuuuge" mindset, it's easy to forget that shit needs to work at the small scale first.
- jamesaguilar 12y agoAnd that taking an extra six months to get it done, or doing it 5% less well, can be a big barrier to getting huge.
- neilk 12y agoEspecially at Google. Everything has to be ready for a billion customers on day one. While this works great for a lot of products, I contend this is one of the big reasons why they have a lot of problems with social. The great social networks find a band of early adopters who get to know each other on that system, and they all figure out what this thing is, while the dev team responds to what they do, just as fast. At least at the start, it's like a little coffeehouse that a clique discovers and makes their own, and starts holding events there. When Google launches a social product it's like going to the opening of a mall. The place is glitzy, but you're lost in the crowds.
- ZionAmalRafeeq 12y agoNow that was something new for sure! :/
- cgtyoder 12y agoThe authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers Said without a hint of irony.
- dmix 12y agoIt's true. Google's all encompassing centralized nature combined with Eric Schmidt open-door policy to mass surveillance (ie. 'if you have nothing to hide') and destroying privacy helped us realize we need to 'redecentralize' the internet and moved away from silos.
- gress 12y agoA good piece of propaganda.
- ojbyrne 12y agoWhy is an ad the top item on Hacker News?
- adnam 12y agoEverybody who works in marketing is now rushing to update their LinkedIn profile to describe themselves as a "smart creative".
- serve_yay 12y agoI can't figure out what the hell this is.