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Reddit mentions of In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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- Simon Schuster
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| Release date | April 2011 |
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On your Android phone Google has access to your phone's info - your phone number, name, your contacts, device information, etc, in fact, it is likely tracking your physical location, wired and wireless networks.
On your laptop you may have similar contacts, location, connected networks, browsing history -
Comparing all these facts yields a high probability of it being the same person. Welcome to machine learning
Suggest reading if deeply curious
Big Data: A Revolution that will Transform How We Live, Work and Think https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848547900/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_BUllzbRGZ8E4Q
Or
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416596585/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_rVllzb9PA7GTF
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It mentions how they originally wanted to only allow people that had passed a test to buy shares and how people that didn't like the terms just were supposed to sell off their shares (or not buy them in the first place).
Video was uploaded April 23, 2005. October 9, 2006 YouTube was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock. (Wiki)
Co-founder Steve Chen left Facebook so he could start up YouTube. He was one of the first 20 employes there.
I recommend the book: In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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All of these are 4+ stars and absolutely excellent reads. I recommend any of them depending on what you want to read about. Let me know if you want some more.
Google can't function as a USA only exclusive market. They have been promoting Android for numerous years now and it's become a global thing. Google search engine, a global thing.
Recently in the I/O they showcased how they were helping developing countries by providing Chromebooks on an educational level (I tried to get one in Gibraltar and couldn't, had to wait until the next time I was in the UK). They are reaching out globally so I don't understand why they don't iron out these issues beforehand (Even if it's the simplest of things, such as purchasing an app. Forget movies, music etc... as it gets trickier).
If you read the book In The Plex, you'll gain a good insight at what Google wanted to do and become when they started. They wanted to change the world and make things globally available, but to me they sometimes still act as that little start up company with big ideas from back in the day. Google is no longer small or a start up.
Aside from that, the Android Market/Play Store is not new, it has now been around for years and Android continues to dominate the market share when it comes to mobiles, but here we are, still making it difficult for a consumer to reward a developer and purchase an app.
People interested in Google from its start all the way up to a few months ago should check out Steven Levy's In the Plex. It's a great book.
This has recently changed. Youtube lost Google money for a long time but has now become a nice little source of income. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/1416596585. --Great book if you like non-fiction business stories. Gives some awesome insight into the inner workings of google through the last decade.
It would be a fair trade if I were messing up with logic. I'm not. As I mentioned in my previous post, I have the one example - Google. You have zero examples. It is your intuition that Google is unusual amongst companies, fair enough. It is my intuition that a lot of tech companies try to copy Google. Neither of these claims have any supporting evidence. Since we can just dismiss the claims that are made without evidence what we are left with is a single example of a company who would look favorably on world class skill at a game and no conflicting evidence.
> while I don't particularly put much faith in what someone who hasn't worked at Google
The author of the book I cited is a journalist who interviewed a ton of people at many different levels in Google and was invited to visit the company (by himself, not at a press event) a fair number of times. The book has pretty favorable reviews and no reviews claiming "The guy made everything up!".
Gladly!!
Google is the one of a very few fortune 500 companies without a dedicated VP of Marketing http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/
They have seldom run any ads, with only airing just a few for chrome this past year, and one for their search right around the time of their launch.
Most of their advertising comes from the android platform, and is actually marketed by carriers and the device makers, not from google directly.
Co-founder larry page once said "If we've used marketing, we've failed." http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/07/22/googles-larry-page-once-said-if-we-have-to-use-marketing-then-weve-failed/
They believe that the qualities of their product stand by their own merit (which has proven true), and that if they have to market it to get market share, then they havent created the best product they can. I love Google, but it would be a marketing nightmare to work in that kind of culture. It's a shame because a few smart campaigns showing the integratedness of their products could really help them spread the auxilary services (docs, calendar, etc)
I really recommend reading this book on google if you want to know more, it was a fantastic read.
EDIT: Their sales for adwords is also entirely automated, there is very little selling that google does. Their branding is also very clear, and thus very rigid. They won't be changing anything anytime soon because they dont have to. With their branding the way it is, it would be hard to edge out a new campaign. They have great possibilities, but I don't think they would be a good client.
I was going to say google it but it turned out not to show up so here's the article
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/mf_larrypage/all/1
and here's the book on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/1416596585/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300723315&sr=8-1