books about Google

[Questor]

In the course of compiling what I plan to be an extensive bibliography on
computer history, I came across an unexpected number of books about Google.
I list them below in chronological order. As I have not read any of them, I
cannot make any informed comment about their contents or quality.


The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and
Transformed Our Culture
John Battelle
2005; Portfolio / Penguin Group

The Google Story
David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
2005; Delacort Press / Bantam Dell / Random House, Inc.

Googleed: The End of the World As We Know It
Ken Auletta
2009; The Penguin Press

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
Douglas Edwards
2011; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy
2011; Simon & Schuster

Google: How Google Works
Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg with Alan Eagle
2014; Grand Central PUblishing / Hachette Book Group


and also:

Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
Fred Vogelstein
2013; Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Scott Galloway
2017; Portfolio / Penguin

[Jorgen Grahn]

Post by Questor
In the course of compiling what I plan to be an extensive bibliography on
computer history, I came across an unexpected number of books about Google.
I list them below in chronological order. As I have not read any of them, I
cannot make any informed comment about their contents or quality.
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and
Transformed Our Culture
John Battelle
2005; Portfolio / Penguin Group

What I would like to know about Google, is this. I read around the
time that Google started, that is was originally powered by massive
numbers of second hand machines. Was that true.?

I'd like to know too. The fact or factoid stuck in my mind, because
I /wanted/ it to be true. Which makes me a bit suspicious.

/Jorgen