CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE ORGANIZING THE WORLD’S INFORMATION CHAPTER TWO A NEW WAY TO SEARCH CHAPTER THREE HIRING AND GROWING CHAPTER FOUR DRAMATIC EXPANSION GOOGLE AROUND THE WORLD CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX GOOGLE AND THE GOVERNMENT 62 CHAPTER SEVEN INVESTING IN SOCIETY CHAPTER EIGHT INTO THE FUTURE TIMELINE 98 SOURCE NOTES ESSENTIAL FACTS 100 INDEX GLOSSARY 102 ABOUT THE AUTHORS ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 ABOUT THE CONSULTANT 112 4 14 26 38 52 74 86 106 110 112
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ORGANIZING THE WORLD’S INFORMATION today Google is the number one search engine in the United States and in the world The company has more than 72,000 employees It made more than 19 billion in profit in 2017 It owns YouTube the number one online video site It owns the Android smartphone operating system which is used by more than two billion people every month 1 Google has worked with other companies to design smartphones and Chromebooks slimmed-down laptops that use Google’s own web browser Chrome From its earliest days Google has been known for innovation Even now as one of the world’s largest companies it still pushes the boundaries of technology Google employees Google has gone from a company started by a pair of college students to a multibillion-dollar company that controls access to a vast amount of information 5
