April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 53m
English
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No Content, No Portal
Had they taken the advice of experts, Page and Brin would have built a portal site with multiple services, just like their principal competitors. They chose to do just the opposite instead—to produce no content on their own, focusing instead on offering tools to find or produce content.