
by John Battelle
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If you pick your books by their popularity--how many and which other people are reading them--then know this about The Search: it's probably on Bill Gates' reading list, and that of almost every venture capitalist and startup-hungry entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. In its sweeping survey of the history of Internet search technologies, its gossip about and analysis of Google, and its speculation on the larger cultural implications of a Web-connected world, it will likely receive attention from a variety of businesspeople, technology futurists, journalists, and interested observers of mid-2000s zeitgeist. This ambitious book comes with a strong pedigree. Author John Battelle was a founder of The Industry Standard and then one of the original editors of Wired, two magazines which helped shape our early perceptions of the wild world of the Internet. Battelle clearly drew from his experience and contacts in writing The Search. In addition to the sure-handed historical perspective and easy familiarity with such dot-com stalwarts as AltaVista, Lycos, and Excite, he speckles his narrative with conversational asides from a cast of fascinating characters, such Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Yahoo's, Jerry Yang and David Filo; key executives at Microsoft and different VC firms on the famed Sandhill road; and numerous other insiders, particularly at the company which currently sits atop the search world, Google. The Search is not exactly the corporate history of Google. At the book's outset, Battelle specifically indicates his desire to understand what he calls the cultural anthropology of search, and to analyze search engines' current role as the "database of our intentions"--the repository of humanity's curiosity, exploration, and expressed desires. Interesting though that beginning is, though, Battelle's story really picks up speed when he starts dishing inside scoop on the darling business story of the decade, Google. To Battelle's credit, though, he doesn't stop just with historical retrospective: the final part of his book focuses on the potential future directions of Google and its products' development. In what Battelle himself acknowledges might just be a "digital fantasy train", he describes the possibility that Google will become the centralizing platform for our entire lives and quotes one early employee on the weightiness of Google's potential impact: "Sometimes I feel like I am on a bridge, twenty thousand feet up in the air. If I look down I'm afraid I'll fall. I don't feel like I can think about all the implications." Some will shrug at such words; after all, similar hype has accompanied other technologies and other companies before. Many others, though, will search Battelle's story for meaning--and fast. --Peter Han
by John Battelle
Cuốn sách "The Search - Công Cụ Tìm Kiếm" không chỉ đề cập những thành tích Google đã đạt được. Đây còn là một cuốn sách minh họa đầy sinh động về quá khứ, hiện tại và tương lai của công nghệ tìm kiếm và ảnh hưởng to lớn của nó đang bắt đầu lan dần trên các lĩnh vực marketing, truyền thông, văn hóa đại chúng, giao lưu gặp gỡ, tìm việc làm, luật quốc tế, tự do dân chủ và dường như tất cả các mối quan tâm khác của con người.Với tất cả những ai muốn hiểu cách thành công của Google và những ẩn ý trong một thế giới mà mọi truy cập đều được lưu giữ, "The Search - Công Cụ Tìm Kiếm" là một cuốn sách không thể thiếu và đáng được đọc "ngấu nghiến".Xin trân trọng giới thiệu cùng các bạn.
by John Battelle
Devenue passerelle instantanée vers la connaissance, plus efficace qu'aucun de ses concurrents, Google est utilisée par des centaines de millions de personnes en quête de réponses à leurs besoins et désirs, à leurs peurs et obsessions. Elle constitue une gigantesque base de requêtes, que l'auteur a baptisée la "Base de données de nos intentions". Cette dernière, croisée avec d'autres, devient une mine d'or dont toute organisation - notamment gouvernementale - rêve de s'emparer. Ce livre retrace de l'intérieur le triomphe de Google et met en perspective toute l'histoire des technologies de recherche. Avec lucidité, l'auteur analyse leur énorme impact sur le marketing, les médias, la culture pop, les rencontres, l'emploi, le droit international, les libertés individuelles. Traduit par Dov Rueff avec la contribution de Sébastien Blondeel .
by John Battelle
Google este cel mai important motor de cautare actual. Intrand in joc mult dupa Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, Lycos si alte companii pioniere, Google a venit cu o abordare radical diferita, a redefinit ideea de marketing pe Internet, a supravietuit perioadei de recesiune a companiilor virtuale si a pornit cea mai ampla si mai disputata oferta catre public din istoria firmelor de inalta tehnologie. Lucrarea «Fenomenul Google» reprezinta mai mult decat povestea, vazuta din interior, a triumfului obtinut de Google. Este o ilustrare a trecutului, prezentului si viitorului tehnolo-giei de cautare si a impactului extraordinar pe care aceasta incepe sa-l aiba asupra culturii, marketingului, presei, intalnirilor amoroase, pietei muncii, asupra legislatiei internatio-nale, libertatilor civile si aproape asupra tuturor sferelor de interes actual. Google a devenit poarta de acces catre o in-formare rapida. Sute de milioane de oameni o folosesc pen-tru a-si satisface dorintele, nevoile, temerile, obsesiile, dand nastere la ceea ce autorul numeste baza de date a intentiilor. La acestea se adauga alte baze de date ale miilor de afaceri online, toate la un loc constituind o mina de aur pe care organizatii puternice (inclusiv guverne), ar dori sa si-o insuseasca. Pentru oricine doreste sa inteleaga cum s-a impus Google de fapt si insemnatatea unei lumi in care fiecare clic poate fi stocat in memorie pentru totdeauna, cartea de fata reprezinta o lectura extrem de agreabila si, totodata, instructiva.
by John Battelle
Hardcover book about Google.
by John Battelle