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

The definitive book on Google, based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to the company whose mission was to capture and organize all the world’s information—but became much much more as the flagship example of how internet and AI could power a dominant company.


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AMAZON BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR

“Levy is America’s premier technology journalist. He makes the biggest intellectual challenges of computer science seem endlessly fun and fascinating… We can expect many more books about Google. .But few will deliver the lively, idea-based journalism of In the Plex.”

— Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Washington Post

“The most comprehensive, intelligent and readable analysis of Google to date. In the Plex teems with original insight into Google’s most controversial affairs.”

— Andrew Keen, New Scientist

Makes obsolete previous books on the company.”

—  Jack Shafer, San Francisco Chronicle