Jun 14, 2009
What Would Google Do? (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly
This scattered collection of rambling rants lauding Google’s abilities to harness the power of the Internet Age generally misses the mark. Blog impresario Jarvis uses the company’s success to trace aspects of the new customer-driven, user-generated, niche-market-oriented, customized and collaborative world. While his insights are stimulating, Jarvis’s tone is acerbic and condescending; equally off-putting is his pervasive name-dropping. The book picks up in a (more…)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very important book about today’s internet
I read this book and found it to be profound. I’m shocked at the number of bad reviews on Amazon — scrawled by folks who just don’t “get it.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Yawn
Like his Twitter feed, this book is mainly about Jeff Jarvis impressing the hell out of himself. As an indicator of the seriousness with which the author takes his subject, note…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rethinking Everything for Functioning in the Future
This is a great mind-twisting book that shows examples of rethinking everything in different ways, as well as laying out how the business world is changing.
4.0 out of 5 stars
What would Google do? Charge nothing. Make it up in volume. Literally.
An outdated business joke has become an economic reality:
First Salesman: “We lose money on every sale.
5.0 out of 5 stars
More clarity on the electronic age than I have seen elsewhere
I’ve had a hard time making sense of everything that’s going on with the advance of the new media. Jarvis does a better job of clarifying what’s happening than anything else I’ve…
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must read for every business owner
This book is a must-read for business owners or managers who want to understand how Google has become such a dominant player and provides ideas and suggestions for how to apply…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Googlejuice- Opens the World Of Possibilities
Jeff Jarvis descriptions of how Google impacts the world are fantastic. I am an avid internet user, part-time computer geek, and entrepreneur who never really understood the…
1.0 out of 5 stars
In the tank for Google
Or, to riff on Jarvis’ own take on Dell, mentioned early in the book:
“Jeff Jarvis S***CKS.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Review of What Would Google Do
Review of What Would Google Do
Copyright 2009, Jim Penny
Word count: 1433
OK, so I read a book review in the Washington Post.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Building open platforms
There are two broad sections to the book: analysis of what made Google successful, followed by Jeff Jarvis’s take on applying these principles to a wide variety of existing…