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1) Google
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Engaging images accompany information about Google Inc. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Presents the history of the founding of Google and the development of its search engine, the innovations and acquisitions it made after the firm went public, and how it is preparing for future expansion and new capabilities." --
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English
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"Chromebooks are perfect for Seniors. Hopefully you are at a state in your life where the Internet helps you but doesn't define you. You don't need to have a powerhouse computer that can have 200 spreadsheets running at the same time or watching a movie while you have 100 other apps open! You just want a computer that lets you check up on things, and maybe stream a movie or to. In a word: something simple. If that sounds like you, then all you have...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem. Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
""We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Welch's Straight from the Gut was once the essential primer for managers, but today's leaders need a new playbook. In HOW GOOGLE WORKS, Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg distill their decades of working in the high-tech industry into a practical and fun-to-read guide for those who want to succeed in an ever-changing business landscape. The book offers how-to advice on strategy, corporate culture, talent, decision-making, innovation, communication...
Author
Publisher
Prentice Hall Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this book the author, a master researcher explains how to find what you are looking for quickly, efficiently, and accurately, and how to avoid the most common mistakes of the Google Age. Not your average research book, it shows how to unveil nearly anything about anyone. From top CEOs' salaries to police records, you will learn little known tricks for discovering the exact information you are looking for. You will learn: How to really tap into...
10) The memory box
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English
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In this gripping domestic thriller, a group of privleged suburban moms amuse themselves by Googling everyone in town, digging up dirt to fuel throny gossip. Caroline Thompson, devoted mother of two, is relieve to hear her name appears only three times, citing her philanthropy. However, a delayed pag of insecurity prods Caroline to Google her maiden name-- which none of the others know. The hits cascade like a tsunami. Caroline's terrified by what...
Author
Language
English
Description
Discover how Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two ordinary computer science graduate students at Stanford University, but together, created Google, the world's most powerful information search engine on the Internet. Readers will learn about the power of innovation, creativity and tech smarts.
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