Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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‘How Google Works,’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg (Published 2014)
Two technology executives explain the business methods behind Google’s groundbreaking success.
Personal blogs are where tech news happens. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
History of Google
Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg. The search engine soon proved successful, and the expanding company moved several times, finally settling at Mountain View in 2003. This marked a phase of rapid growth, with the company making its initial public offering in 2004 and quickly becoming one of the world's largest media companies. The company launched Google News in 2002, Gmail in 2004, Google Maps in 2005, Google Chrome in 2008, and the social network known as Google+ in 2011, in addition to many other products. The company set up a charitable offshoot, Google.org, in 2005. In 2015, Google became the main subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc.
Opinion | Stop Googling. Let’s Talk. (Published 2015)
What have we done to face-to-face conversation?
Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.
Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.
Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.
Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.
Google vs. the Open Web
A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...
blogs.social — Discover the open web
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
Ten Things I Learned from Two Months on Foursquare
Sree Sreenivasan explores the popular social media tool.
What Google's Open Communication Culture Is Really Like | Backchannel
A veteran of Google’s communications team argues for preserving the company’s famous culture of debate—even after a controversial firing.
