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In The Plex
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives | Steven Levy
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Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best (…more)
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TimSpalding
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I enjoyed Facebook so much—and of course Levy‘s Hackers, which was massively influential on tween me—so I got this. Still, I‘m not sure I can stick through it—it‘s a 2011 book about Google and that feels passé.

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GoneFishing

It is astounding that Google, whose corporate philosophy is ‘don‘t be evil,‘ would enable evil by cooperating with China‘s censorship policies just to make a buck... Many Chinese have suffered imprisonment and torture in the service of truth—and now Google is collaborating with their persecutors.

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GoneFishing

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.