“Google It” by Anna Crowley Redding is a book about the journey of now worldwide search engine, “Google.” It shows the beginning of the relationship of the founders, Larry and Sergey, and how they found solutions to big problems in creating this search engine. Hidden within the lines, you can see the internal issues within the company, a main issue being the idea of whether to value beliefs or money, an especially difficult decision when having financial problems as a small company.

I really enjoyed this book and learning about the roots and beginnings of such a big company and I hope that you can see several main ideas and themes of the book in my notes below.

As seen in the introduction, one of the first issues that I came across was Larry and Sergey’s decision between beliefs and money. This issue can be seen all throughout the book and I have written down quotes from different sections of the book showing this.

The first section of this notebook page expands onto the previous idea and also shows that Larry and Sergey chose to value their beliefs over the money presented to them. There are many areas in the story where they chose to value their beliefs and I have written down the page numbers to those areas. The second section of the page has a small theme which is to “Have fun” with what you do. The book shows all the fun little things that Google did, such as April Fool’s, and how it benefited them overall.

A large part of the story is the many deals that Google went through with but also the deals that they pulled out of. This notebook page shows the causes of Google pulling out of a big deal with China and the effects of that.

I created this notebook page as a small summary of a couple main issues and ideas in the story such as their financial difficulties and privacy leaks. I used arrows to link these main issues and ideas to creative solutions that Larry and Sergey used to overcome them.

Thank you for looking through my notes and I hope that they can help you develop a larger idea of the story. If you are interested in this book you could Google more about Google’s history or look at this small summary of the book.