Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
A pretty interesting read but already way out of date by 2012! It helped me understand and appreciate why Google is as evil as they are, despite their stance against it. I fear for the world where everything private is online ready to be hacked. Google as a company *does not have the security chops to protect what they are trying to acquire*! They can't even address years-long bugs in their existing products. Google is a bunch of kids eager to build the next "shiny object", but without the maturity to handle and keep it polished for years. Their lack of an attention span means that they will eventually be hacked, and hacked hard, and everything private that you have in your Gmail account will go out there for every identity thief to take. Read, learn and become very afraid! Eeehh... Some parts are pretty interesting, other parts seem to present a rather simplistic picture. The best parts eem to reflect the more social & business aspects of what was going on. Particularly coverage of press events attended by the author. Other parts of the books have a tendency towards hyperbole. (Google is more open than other companies, no one thought about X before Google, Yahoo had everything be person-driven, etc).[return][return]Not bad, a good start if you're interested in Google, but I hope there's better books out there on Google. (Haven't ready any yet though).
What do You think about Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know (2008)?
Liked this book. Enjoyed a little bit about how Google works and is changing the world around us.
—canotrul
Interesting book. Nice objective look at google's history, success, missteps and challenges.
—spaz
