Google It

A History of Google

By: Anna Crowley Redding

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Frenemies + Homework + Legos = Google? From a college project made out of knock-off legos, Google became one of the most influential companies in the world. Award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares the true story of Google, its history, innovations, and where it will take us next is this compelling nonfiction account.

Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don’t be evil. And change the world.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world’s information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential and innovative companies in the world. The word “google” has even entered our vocabulary as a verb. Now, find out the true history of Google—from its humble beginnings as a thesis project made out of “borrowed” hardware and discount toys through its revolution of the world’s relationship with technology to a brief glimpse of where they might take us next.

Award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and of shooting for the moon to change the world.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Anna Crowley Redding (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Fun book to listen to

Enjoyed listening to this book, while learning a lot about Google's story.
I wish they make a second part with history of Google from 2018 to present days.

Wow, thank you gentlemen

What an impressive story about Google, it truly makes you appreciate the journey that they went through, to make this billion dollar company the way it is today. Thank you.

Irritating

I could not decide if I would recommend this book or not; the narration was so overly dramatized it became so painful to listen to that I had to abandon the book after only 1.5 chapters.

I’ve successfully listened to a great many Audible books over the years, all of which I was able to enjoy the narration because it neither added to or detracted from the story line. Good authors add the dramatization they desire by using words and phrases to tell the story with the flavor they desire.

A narrator who dramatizes every sentence in some sections of the book is attempting to tell her version of the story; that’s not her job.

Sorry.

I’ll go buy the print version: not sure that’s progress.