Google It: A History of Google by Anna Crowley Redding is about how Google went from being a homework assignment to one of the most controversial search engines in the world. The story is told from the perspective of the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford students who wanted to organize the world’s information. Sharing their love for mathematics and technology, the two managed to achieve their wild ideas despite the amount of problems they faced.

I found this book to be really interesting and I hope you will notice the central ideas and themes that I discovered as you read my notebook pages.

The first idea that I discovered is that: Anything is possible if you attempt it. See my ideas here:

Since Larry and Sergey dropped out of Stanford to run Google as a business, they were even more determined to change the world. However, the company wasn’t making any money when it launched and even after it gained popularity, which made me wonder how Google became so successful at the end. I sometimes wondered if they had made the wrong decision, but despite the many challenges that they had faced, I realized that you shouldn’t be afraid of failure, even when testing out crazy ideas.

On page 125, Gmail’s privacy issues caused a lot of issues for the company, but they did not let failure hold them back. Google believed that if people didn’t give up on their dreams, all of their effort would soon pay off. This page shows the causes and effects on how they managed to solve the problems and finally earn money.

(This page also includes the practice I did on Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly)

Thank you for checking out my blog! If you are interested in this topic and would like to do further research, check out the book Google It: A History of Google, or this documentary.

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