In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416596585 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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They followed this brilliant innovation with another, as two of Google’s earliest employees found a way to do what no one else had: make billions of dollars from Internet advertising. With this cash cow, Google was able to expand dramatically and take on other transformative projects: more efficient data centers, open-source cell phones, free Internet video (YouTube), cloud computing, digitizing books, and much more. Even today, with a workforce of more than 23,000, Larry Page signs off on every hire. While they were still students at Stanford, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revolutionized Internet search. Some employees are leaving the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. 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 technology writers.Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. After its unapologetically e
Herve Lebret said The new University of the XXIst century?. In the Plex is an(other) amazing book about my favorite company. Google is the reason why I wrote a book about start-ups: When I did a PowerPoint presentation in "The new University of the XXIst century?" according to Herve Lebret. In the Plex is an(other) amazing book about my favorite company. Google is the reason why I wrote a book about start-ups: When I did a PowerPoint presentation in 2006 gathering what I knew about the Mountain View start-up, some friends told me to write a more general book about start-ups. Which I did in 2007. And then a blogI have read already three books about Google and this one is as good as the previous ones. Maybe better. So I should thank here Michele Catasta, who advised me to read it when I did last June my updated presentation of the 2006 one. And I should certainly. 006 gathering what I knew about the Mountain View start-up, some friends told me to write a more general book about start-ups. Which I did in "The new University of the XXIst century?" according to Herve Lebret. In the Plex is an(other) amazing book about my favorite company. Google is the reason why I wrote a book about start-ups: When I did a PowerPoint presentation in 2006 gathering what I knew about the Mountain View start-up, some friends told me to write a more general book about start-ups. Which I did in 2007. And then a blogI have read already three books about Google and this one is as good as the previous ones. Maybe better. So I should thank here Michele Catasta, who advised me to read it when I did last June my updated presentation of the 2006 one. And I should certainly. 007. And then a blogI have read already three books about Google and this one is as good as the previous ones. Maybe better. So I should thank here Michele Catasta, who advised me to read it when I did last June my updated presentation of the "The new University of the XXIst century?" according to Herve Lebret. In the Plex is an(other) amazing book about my favorite company. Google is the reason why I wrote a book about start-ups: When I did a PowerPoint presentation in 2006 gathering what I knew about the Mountain View start-up, some friends told me to write a more general book about start-ups. Which I did in 2007. And then a blogI have read already three books about Google and this one is as good as the previous ones. Maybe better. So I should thank here Michele Catasta, who advised me to read it when I did last June my updated presentation of the 2006 one. And I should certainly. 006 one. And I should certainly. Hackers insight into Google If you'd ask me, which technology journalist should write a book about Google, then Steven Levy would be high on my list. Steven's been around for a long time and wrote the excellent "Hackers" and the not so excellent "The Perfect Thing." He is able to write about technology in an engaging way, making "In the Plex" and insightful book about how Google works and how it doesn't work.The book is roughly organized around products (or projects). Since the book is about Google, it must start with the world of search and how Google was founded in Standford. How the two Googler foun. Raskolinkov said I thought the best parts of the book were the "China Chapters. I just finished this book. It contains a wealth of information, from Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt and Marrisa Mayer and Salar Kamangar and so many others. There are hundreds of people included here, computer engineers, many, many people. While reading, it is neat to keep Google Search close, ha. You can look up the various people involved with Google. I thought the best parts of the book were the "China Chapters." China is a crazy country. Once I read a book called, "Beijing Jeep." It is about American Motors trying to build Jeeps in China back in the 1970s. A
All rights reserved. He offers a smart analysis of the tensions between Google's "âÇÿDon't Be Evil'" slogan and its censorship of its Chinese Web site and the privacy implications of its drive to sponge up all information—but he accepts Google's blinkered conception of e-ethics and its demands for huge tax breaks with too much complacency. He also regales readers with the "Googley" corporate culture of hip techno-capitalism: the elitist focus on braininess, the campus game rooms, the countercultural rectitude of billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin (which can read more like puerile arrogance as they roller-blade into meetings with busines
Steven Levy is a senior writer at Wired, and was formerly senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek. . He is the author of several books, including Hackers, Insanely Great, and The Perfect Thing. A native of Philadelphia, Levy lives in New York City wit