The Google Story or Beginning Programming For Dummies

The Google Story: For Google's 10th Birthday

Author: David A Vis

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 powerful search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. The Google Story takes you deep inside the company's wild ride from an idea that struggled for funding in 1998 to a firm that rakes in billions in profits, making Brin and Page the wealthiest young men in America. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, this fast-moving narrative reveals how an unorthodox management style and culture of innovation enabled a search engine to shake up Madison Avenue and Wall Street, scoop up YouTube, and battle Microsoft at every turn. Not afraid of controversy, Google is expanding in Communist China and quietly working on a searchable genetic database, initiatives that test the founders' guiding mantra: DON'T BE EVIL.

Library Journal

A Pulitzer Prize winner from the Washington Post whose beat includes Google, Vise and coauthor Malseed (who worked with him on The Bureau and the Mole) tell the tale of how two twentysomething doctoral students built the little search engine that could. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Preface: Google Grows Up xiii Introduction 1
1 A Healthy Disregard for the Impossible 10
2 When Larry Met Sergey 20
3 Learning to Count 32
4 The Secret Sauce 45
5 Divide and Conquer 58
6 Burning Man 70
7 The Danny Sullivan Show 82
8 A Trickle 93
9 Hiring a Pilot 103
10 You've Got Google 112
11 The Google Economy 121
12 And on the Fifth Day 130
13 Global Goooogling 141
14 April Fools 152
15 Porn Cookie Guy 164
16 Going Public 168
17 Playboys 181
18 Charlie's Place 192
19 Space Race 204
20 A Legal Showdown 220
21 A Virtual Library 228
22 Attacking Microsoft 240
23 Money Machine 249
24 The China Syndrome 259
25 Googling Your Genes 271
26 Rocket Man 282 Appendix I 23 Google Search Tips 293 Appendix II Google Labs Aptitude Test (GLAT) 299 Appendix III Google's Financial Scorecard 303 A Note on Sources 309 Acknowledgments 315 Photo Credits 319 Index 321

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Beginning Programming For Dummies

Author: Wallace Wang

Despite popular belief, anyone can learn to program a computer. Computer programming doesn't require a high IQ and an innate proficiency in advanced mathematics. All that's required is a desire to learn and the patience to never give up.

If you've ever dreamed of writing your own programs, rest assured that you can. Programming can be a lot of fun, but it can also be frustrating, annoying, and time-consuming. And that's why you need Beginning Programming For Dummies, 2nd Edition – to help you discover how to program a computer with the minimum amount of inconvenience and the maximum amount of enjoyment.

Now, enjoyment can go only so far. In fact, not many people program just for the fun of it; usually, they want to create a program to do something unique to their lives, or perhaps they'd like to make a little cash on the side by selling their programs as shareware. If you've always wondered how you could do what so many others have done, all you have to do is plug into Beginning Programming For Dummies, 2nd Edition, to find out how. Here's just a sample of the topics you'll find covered:

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• Assembling and working with programming tools

• Getting inside a programming language: Liberty BASIC

• Programming basics: From variables, constants, and comments to strings, control statements, and loops

• Creating user interfaces for your programs

• Dealing with data structures

• Playing with object-oriented programming

• Debugging and optimizing yourcode

• Top Ten lists on the top programming careers and additional resources

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