The Search: How Google & Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business & Transformed Our Culture (Unabridged) The Search: How Google & Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business & Transformed Our Culture (Unabridged)

The Search: How Google & Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business & Transformed Our Culture (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question can unlock the most intractable riddles of both business and culture. And for the past few years, that's exactly what Google has been doing.

Jumping into the game long after Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and other pioneers, Google offered a radical new approach to search, redefined the idea of viral marketing, survived the dotcom crash, and pulled off the largest and most talked about initial public offering in the history of Silicon Valley.

But The Search offers much more than the inside story of Google's triumph. It's also a big-picture book about the past, present, and future of search technology, and the enormous impact it is starting to have on marketing, media, pop culture, dating, job hunting, international law, civil liberties, and just about every other sphere of human interest.

More than any of its rivals, Google has become the gateway to instant knowledge. Hundreds of millions of people use it to satisfy their wants, needs, fears, and obsessions, creating an enormous artifact that Battelle calls "the Database of Intentions". Combined with the databases of thousands of other search-driven businesses, large and small, it all adds up to a goldmine of information that powerful organizations (including the government) will want to get their hands on.

No one is better qualified to explain this entire phenomenon than Battelle, who co-founded Wired and founded The Industry Standard. Perhaps more than any other journalist, he has devoted his career to finding the holy grail of technology. And he has finally found it in search.

For anyone who wants to understand how Google really succeeded, The Search is an eye-opening and indispensable read.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
NARRATOR
JB
John Battelle
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:02
hr min
RELEASED
2023
December 13
PUBLISHER
Audible Studios
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
489.4
MB

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