October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
744 pages
17h 10m
English
Google the website is just one product of Google, Inc., the company. It’s the primary product, to be sure, but it’s just one facet of a multifaceted organization.
If Google is about more than simple web searching, just what does the company do? Well, we can get a clue by examining Google’s mission statement:
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
As mission statements go, this one is properly high-minded and vague. But it’s also somewhat descriptive of what the company actually does on a day-by-day basis. By using its proprietary search technology, Google does help organize information and make it both more accessible and ...