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It’s the American dream—start a company, make a fortune, and retire early. But to become multimillionaires in their twenties, as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did, boggles the mind. All they did, after all, is come up with a better way to search for things on the Internet, right? Only in part. No company achieves a market value in the range of $172 billion (in early 2008) based on a single good idea. This new entry in the Corporations That Changed … More >>
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After reading 17 pages of this book, I have decided that this book is written for readers who like to insult their own intelligence. This book is more like a term paper written by sophomore students who like to work on a paper called “Google”, but “gee, I don’t have any research question”. Sentences in some paragraphs do not link to each other, and there is no relation between paragraphs. Needless to say, there is no central theme to each chapter.
More, the author is lazy enough not to do more background research for her claims. For example, on p. 9, she wrote: “A keyword-targeted advertising program provided more revenue. Partnerships formed with Yahoo! and China’s leading portal, among others”. Can you tell me which China’s leading portal you are talking about (just google it please?)
On p. 12, there is a paragraph long of introduction to USSR, which starts with: “USSR stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was also known as Russia and the Soviet Union”. Wow, like we don’t know.
It may take at most two months for someone–anyone–to compile the book. And it costs $45. I printed it out from the publisher online website; still I feel I have wasted money on ink.
Rating: 1 / 5