What Would Google Do?
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"What Would Google Do?" is a business and technology book by Jeff Jarvis that analyzes Google's principles and practices to propose how companies, institutions, and individuals can adapt to the internet age.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| What Would Google Do? canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T866736 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What Would Google Do? Context triple: [Jeff Jarvis, hasWritten, What Would Google Do?]
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A.
Software is eating the world
"Software is eating the world" is a famous thesis by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen arguing that software-driven companies are transforming and dominating nearly every traditional industry.
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B.
Google X
Google X is a semi-secret research and development lab of Google (now Alphabet) focused on creating breakthrough technologies such as autonomous vehicles and other ambitious "moonshot" projects.
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C.
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
"Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
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D.
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About is a reflective book by Donald E. Knuth in which he discusses the philosophical, spiritual, and personal dimensions underlying his life and work in computer science.
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E.
Designing Social Inquiry
Designing Social Inquiry is an influential methodological book in political science that sets out a unified framework for conducting rigorous qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What Would Google Do? Target entity description: "What Would Google Do?" is a business and technology book by Jeff Jarvis that analyzes Google's principles and practices to propose how companies, institutions, and individuals can adapt to the internet age.
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A.
Software is eating the world
"Software is eating the world" is a famous thesis by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen arguing that software-driven companies are transforming and dominating nearly every traditional industry.
-
B.
Google X
Google X is a semi-secret research and development lab of Google (now Alphabet) focused on creating breakthrough technologies such as autonomous vehicles and other ambitious "moonshot" projects.
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C.
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
"Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
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D.
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About is a reflective book by Donald E. Knuth in which he discusses the philosophical, spiritual, and personal dimensions underlying his life and work in computer science.
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E.
Designing Social Inquiry
Designing Social Inquiry is an influential methodological book in political science that sets out a unified framework for conducting rigorous qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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business book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ technology book ⓘ |
| author | Jeff Jarvis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describes |
Google business principles
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how companies can adapt to the internet age ⓘ how individuals can adapt to the internet age ⓘ how institutions can adapt to the internet age ⓘ impact of the internet on business ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
advertising models
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data-driven decision making ⓘ networked markets ⓘ openness ⓘ platform thinking ⓘ search ⓘ transparency ⓘ user-generated content ⓘ |
| genre |
business
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management ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
disruptive innovation
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pro-internet ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0061709719 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780061709715 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Google
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business strategy ⓘ customer-centricity ⓘ digital economy ⓘ innovation ⓘ internet ⓘ marketing ⓘ media industry ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
rebuilding businesses around customers and networks
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thinking like Google in other industries ⓘ |
| pageCount | 272 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| setInContextOf |
rise of Web 2.0
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shift from mass media to digital media ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
business leaders
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entrepreneurs ⓘ media professionals ⓘ technology professionals ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed | early 21st century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: What Would Google Do? Description of subject: "What Would Google Do?" is a business and technology book by Jeff Jarvis that analyzes Google's principles and practices to propose how companies, institutions, and individuals can adapt to the internet age.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.