"Engaging images accompany information about Google Inc. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

""We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral...

Provides two-page lessons with step-by-step screen shots that show readers how to tackle useful Chromebook tasks, including configuring Chrome OS, connecting external devices, running and managing apps and extensions, surfing the web, and troubleshooting network problems.

Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes the difference between programming and software engineering. How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their experience at Google, software engineers...

Trying to reboot their obsolete careers, old-school salesmen Billy and Nick talk their way into an internship program at the state-of-the-art Google campus, vying for a handful of spots among tech-savvy college students who are half their age and twice as smart. The competition is fiercely funny as Billy and Nick break all the rules in a hilarious quest to land their dream jobs.

Clear instructions for setting up, navigating, and using an Android tablet. Learn to use Google applications that come loaded on the device, personalize it, and much more.

Get the most out of your Google Chromebook. Chromebook for Dummies walks you through setting up your Chromebook, transitioning from traditional computers, customizing a Chromebook to fit your needs, navigating the many apps and their uses, and applying advanced settings and features. This book documents the features of all Chromebooks, approaching them from the point of view of a smart person who is intimidated by the technology.

"Search engines allow us to find almost anything on the internet. But it wasn't always this easy. Find out more about the creation of Google, how it's expanded, and what's next for the innovative company"--

A manual for survival and success that asks the most important question today's leaders, in any industry, can ask themselves: What would Google do? To demonstrate how to emulate Google, Jarvis lays out his laws of what he calls "the new Google century," including such insights as: Think distributed; Become a platform; Join the post-scarcity, open-source, gift economy; The middleman has died; Your worst customers are your best friends and your best...

"The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy--by a leading tech journalist. Across the world, people watch over a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. The sheer amount of video produced there is beyond comprehension. Every minute, over five hundred hours of footage are uploaded to the site, the equivalent of eighty-two years of video added a day. That anyone can easily...