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

Steven Levy

How does Google think and work from the inside, and how did its search and its choices change the way we live?

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Author
Steven Levy

Why read it

  • You will see how an engineering minded company decides what to build and what to try
  • You will understand how a search company grew into phones, a browser and other businesses
  • You will learn how a tech giant gets pulled into fights over privacy, governments and its own staff

Who it is for

  • A product builder curious how big tech decides what ships
  • A tech worker curious about the culture behind Google
  • Someone who uses Google daily and never asked who it answers to

Contents

  1. PROLOGUE SEARCHING FOR GOOGLE
  2. PART ONE THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GOOGLE
  3. PART TWO GOOGLENOMICS
  4. PART THREE DON’T BE EVIL
  5. PART FOUR GOOGLE’S CLOUD
  6. PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX
  7. PART SIX GUGE
  8. PART SEVEN GOOGLE.GOV
  9. EPILOGUE CHASING TAILLIGHTS
  10. AFTERWORD
  11. Prologue
  12. Part One: The World According to Google
  13. Part Two: Googlenomics
  14. Part Three: Don’t Be Evil
  15. Part Four: Google’s Cloud
  16. Part Five: Outside the Box
  17. Part Six: GuGe
  18. Part Seven: Google.gov
  19. Epilogue: Chasing Taillights
  20. Afterword

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