From an Idea to Google is a behind-the-computer-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world's largest search engine. With humorous black & white illustrations throughout, learn about the company that even earned its own catchphrase: Google it! Today, Google is the number one internet search engine and the most visited website in the world. But a long time ago, two college friends, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, started out with just an idea. Find out more about Google's history, the business, and the brand in this illustrated nonfiction book! Find out where the name "Google" came from. (Hint: It involves a LOT of zeros!) Discover how Google became the fastest and most popular internet search engine of all time. Explore how Google transformed from a tiny startup (in someone's garage!) into one of the most powerful companies in the world.

Dr. Jamal H. Bryant's The Big Idea, When God Impregnates Your Imagination, is a thought-provoking examination of how God uses our imagination and dreams to reveal His plan for our lives. Although dreams often have no impact on reality, some dreams are God-given and impregnated with seeds of destiny. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Bryant analyzes imagination and dreams from both biblical and scientific perspectives. Everything that God does is big and everything He blesses is overflowing and abundant. Some of the greatest ideas and advancements the in world were God-given and birthed from the heart of a dreamer. No matter what sector of society you are from, or what your social-economic status is, if you can imagine the miraculous the next "big idea" is only a dream away.

Inside the hottest business, media and technology success of our time "If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise's assiduously researched The Google Story is for you." Sunday Telegraph The Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organisations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google's thirty-five year old founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have in ten years taken Google from being just another internet start-up to a company with a market value of over US$80 billion. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to the inner workings of Google, this book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has become so familiar its name is used as a verb around the world. But even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in a business that changes at lightning speed. In this new and updated edition to celebrate Google's 10th birthday, David A. Vise has written a new preface and new final chapter which look at further developments since 2005 and how Google will continue to expand and innovate while trying to follow its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL MORE PRAISE FOR THE GOOGLE STORY "If Google were to take on critical faculties as well as its other attributes Vise's book would probably come out on top." The Times "[The authors] do a fine job of recounting Google's rapid rise and explaining its search business." New York Times "An intriguing insider view of the Google culture." Harvard Business Review "Fascinating ... meticulous ... never bogs down ... Even if you think you've heard about Google ad nauseam, you will find new items about this important company." Houston Chronicle "If you haven't read anything about one of today's most influential companies, you should. If you don't read The Google Story, you're missing a few extra treats." USA Today

In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for many practical purposes, but inadequate in discussions of a theoretically more demanding nature. Having clearly demonstrated its intellectual drawbacks, he develops an alternative, boldly revisionary way of thinking about text and textual meaning. His careful argument is in challenging dialogue with assumptions about language-in-use to be found in a wide range of present-day literary theory, linguistics, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of language.

A revised study of the billion-dollar enterprise reveals how the Internet icon grew from a concept to a social phenomenon with a bold mission: to organize all of the world's information and make it easily accessible to people in more than one hundred languages, with updated information honoring the tenth anniversary of the company. Simultaneous. 20,000 first printing.

"Strategy to Search and Draft your first Patent Idea" is a guide for inventors to get up to speed with Patents. It describes in brief the US patent laws and how it can be applied to safeguard your inventions.There is also a Do-It-Yourself guide targeted specifically to startups and entrepreneurs designed to help you get a Provisional Patent quickly and cheaply to safeguard your invention before raising funds.The book illustrates the patent writing process by taking the example of the Google patent. The Google patent covers the strategies that Google uses for its search engine and we see how Google structured the patent to cover existing and newer ideas that it can use in its search engine.

This timely volume in The Big Idea series surveys the evolution of AI over the last sixty years and explores how it’s transforming society today and for decades to come. Artificial Intelligence, which once felt like a far-off futuristic fantasy, is now changing everyday life. The past sixty years have witnessed astonishing bursts of growth in the field of AI—the science and computational technologies that teach machines to sense, learn, reason, and act. AI is already altering our lives in ways that benefit health, productivity, and entertainment. Are we on the threshold of an AI-dominated world in which humans will no longer be necessary? Broken down into the past, present, and future of AI, Will AI Replace Us? gives the reader what they need to know in order to form an opinion about the revolutionary advances in technology. University of California, San Francisco, neuroscientist Dr. Shelly Fan expertly explains all sides of the debate, making the relevant science approachable for readers. Accompanying her intelligent text are numerous illustrations that add a compelling and informative visual element. Timely and relevant, Will AI Replace Us? is an important read in the Digital Age.