In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

By Steven Levy

Categories: Business & Money, Computers & Technology

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (2011) by Steven Levy is an inside account of Google. Given broad access to the company, Levy traces its rise from Larry Page and Sergey Brin's search project at Stanford to a global business. He looks at its engineering culture, its approach to advertising, products such as Gmail and Android, its troubled venture into China and the privacy questions its success raised.

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