Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 4 stars “This book did a very good job of organizing a lot of information and was extremely informative about Google's transformation from two college students running the business out of their dorm room to the goliath corporation that it is today. I found the subject matter extremely interesting;...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 3 stars

  “My bedside read. Borrowed from the TPY library, due July 12, got to get cranking on it soon. Google is one company i would love to work for. For its technology and human aspirations”

  Isman Tanuri wrote this review Wednesday, July 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “Mixed feelings about this one. I was interested in the first 100 or so pages about the creation of Google. Sections on its rivalry and ultimate surpassing of Yahoo!, its envy and annoyance at Facebook, and the controversy over its book digitization project were interesting. I ended up skimming the last 50 pages on Gmail and the like. Adult nonfiction.”

  Jennifer S wrote this review Friday, May 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 4 stars

  “This book did a very good job of organizing a lot of information and was extremely informative about Google's transformation from two college students running the business out of their dorm room to the goliath corporation that it is today. I found the subject matter extremely interesting; however, on the downside it seemed that it was written like a textbook. I found it a very slow read considering the way it was written.
  
  If you read a lot of books and want to learn more about the intricacies of Google - read if. If you only read a couple of books a year - chose something else.”

  Chad Bordeaux wrote this review Tuesday, January 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “A fresh cut on the history of Google. Stross does a good job of organizing the story by chapter around specific Google products and their evolution. If you know a lot about Google, this book probably won’t be very interesting to you. If you think you know a lot about Google, but in you own personal quiet moment of honesty, you realize you probably don’t know as much as you do, this is a good book.”

  bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No