Sympile Weiser
Book Details
Author(s)D. F. Klein
PublisherD. F. Klein
ISBN / ASINB01H9968K0
ISBN-13978B01H9968K7
Sales Rank1,169,171
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Al Weiser momentarily put his finger to his lips. “Don’t tell anyone. Legalized gay marriage, I’m responsible. You think it just happened that public opinion changed? That one was a no brainer.”
The twenty-nine-year-old, billionaire founder of Sympile was a former student of the eminent mathematician Ana Powers. His college professor’s groundbreaking work in discrete mathematics had long served as the foundation for anyone who needed to analyze vast amounts of data. But for Professor Powers, it was the mining of Internet usage that was her primary focus.
The willingness of individuals to disclose their innermost secrets, desires, and fears in exchange for some minor convenience had fascinated the Boston Tech professor. And as she watched the Internet become an integral part of the public’s life, she settled on a phrase that best summed up her concept: “Search is the road to a person’s innermost thoughts. And the search results are the map.”
Academics laughed at the Powers’ Roadmap Theory, but not Al Weiser. The creator of the world’s most used search engine knew that all search results were biased. After all, someone had to decide what showed up after the user clicked.
Choose Murwell’s search engine to learn about its competitor’s SymPhone, and negative reviews will fill the search results. Do the same search on Sympile, and you’d be hard pressed to find anything discouraging about its latest phone. That was an easy tweak to figure out. You certainly didn’t need to be an Ana Powers to come up with such an obvious marketing tool.
But what about politics? Could a biased search engine get individuals elected who cared more about their constituents than their own pockets? And what if social networking was also considered? Throw in browsing history, emails, texts, phone calls, contacts, and location. Shake well. Analyze. Bias. Maybe then, one would have a recipe to make a better world.
After the Professor is killed in a suspicious automobile accident, Al Weiser must protect his dead mentor’s son from a long-time rival desperate to get a hold of the legendary Powers’ Roadmap Algorithm. And with the presidential election only a couple of months away, there’s a lot more at stake than selling a few more phones.
Sympile Weiser is the spellbinding story of a genius from the Bronx who turns a search engine into a worldwide phenomenon. The novel that predicted today’s headlines is thrilling, touching, and funny. Creatively blending the connected world with fascinating characters that will enthrall the reader from the first page until the surprising last, Sympile Weiser is the novel of the year.
HAVE A QUESTION? IT’S SYMPILE.
The twenty-nine-year-old, billionaire founder of Sympile was a former student of the eminent mathematician Ana Powers. His college professor’s groundbreaking work in discrete mathematics had long served as the foundation for anyone who needed to analyze vast amounts of data. But for Professor Powers, it was the mining of Internet usage that was her primary focus.
The willingness of individuals to disclose their innermost secrets, desires, and fears in exchange for some minor convenience had fascinated the Boston Tech professor. And as she watched the Internet become an integral part of the public’s life, she settled on a phrase that best summed up her concept: “Search is the road to a person’s innermost thoughts. And the search results are the map.”
Academics laughed at the Powers’ Roadmap Theory, but not Al Weiser. The creator of the world’s most used search engine knew that all search results were biased. After all, someone had to decide what showed up after the user clicked.
Choose Murwell’s search engine to learn about its competitor’s SymPhone, and negative reviews will fill the search results. Do the same search on Sympile, and you’d be hard pressed to find anything discouraging about its latest phone. That was an easy tweak to figure out. You certainly didn’t need to be an Ana Powers to come up with such an obvious marketing tool.
But what about politics? Could a biased search engine get individuals elected who cared more about their constituents than their own pockets? And what if social networking was also considered? Throw in browsing history, emails, texts, phone calls, contacts, and location. Shake well. Analyze. Bias. Maybe then, one would have a recipe to make a better world.
After the Professor is killed in a suspicious automobile accident, Al Weiser must protect his dead mentor’s son from a long-time rival desperate to get a hold of the legendary Powers’ Roadmap Algorithm. And with the presidential election only a couple of months away, there’s a lot more at stake than selling a few more phones.
Sympile Weiser is the spellbinding story of a genius from the Bronx who turns a search engine into a worldwide phenomenon. The novel that predicted today’s headlines is thrilling, touching, and funny. Creatively blending the connected world with fascinating characters that will enthrall the reader from the first page until the surprising last, Sympile Weiser is the novel of the year.
HAVE A QUESTION? IT’S SYMPILE.
