Google World

Synopsis: In a little over ten years, Google has transformed itself from a search engine, into a powerful advertising machine and is now moving into the world of cloud computing. Using incredibly powerful computer servers, Google aims to become the primary depository of all things digital about its users. How and why it aims to achieve this is the focus of this behind-the-scenes documentary. Filmed in Google offices in China, Russia and at the Googleplex, the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters, the documentary reveals a corporate philosophy and attitude unique among major companies: ‘to organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’ and to do it in the next 300 years.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2010
Subjects: Information technology; Media studies
Keywords: computer industries; search engines; cloud computing

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