Books like In the Plex by Steven Levy

A 1981 nonfiction work by Tracy Kidder that follows a computer‑engineering team building the Data General Eclipse MV/8000—a high‑speed minicomputer—under intense deadline pressure.

Apple and Google battle for dominance over the mobile and media markets, revealing how their rivalry reshapes technology, content and competition in Silicon Valley and beyond.

A nonfiction look into the minds of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, exploring how their distinct personalities and ambitions shape the company’s future.

Siva Vaidhyanathan’s book critically examines how Google’s dominance shapes information access, intellectual property, and global politics, while calling for a balanced, open Internet ecosystem.

It's the American dream—start a company, make a fortune, and retire early. But to become multimillionaires in their twenties, as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did, boggles the mind. All they did, after all, is come up with a better way to search for things on the Internet, right? Only in part. No company achieves a market value in the range of $172 billion (in early 2008) based on a single good idea. This new entry in the Corporations That Changed the World Series shows how Google exploited the rage for click through ads, instant news, mapping and satellite imagery, email, and more to create a high-tech behemoth that has done nothing less than change the way we work and live.Chapters in the book: -Explain the importance of the company and the essential disruptions it introduced that changed business forever. -Detail Google's origins and brief history. -Present biographies of the founders and the historical context in which they launched the company. -Explain Google's strategies and innovations. -Show how Google's treatment of employees—food for free, concierge services, laundry facilities, and more—set the bar high for any company eager to attract the best and brightest. -Assess Google's impact on society, technology, processes, methods, etc. (Huge, considering that the company's name has become a verb in the English language!) -Show how Google beat Yahoo and other companies working hard to create a roadmap of the Internet. -Detail financial results over the years. -Predict Google's future prospects and successes. In addition, author Virginia Scott offers special features that include a look at the colorful people associated with Google, interesting trivia, ethical issues and controversies, a focus on products, what its detractors have to say, and a look at where the company is headed. Google—a company that changed, and is changing, the world.

How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture• The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller• Finalist for the Goldman Sachs/FT Business Book of the Year AwardWhat does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question—in all its shades of meaning—can unlock the most intractable riddles of business and arguably of human culture itself. And for the past few years, that's exactly what Google has been doing.But The Search offers much more than the inside story of Google's triumph. It's a big- picture book about the past, present, and future of search technology and the enormous impact it's starting to have on marketing, media, pop culture, dating, job hunting, international law, civil liberties, and just about every other sphere of human interest.

Google Speaks is a nonfiction biography that explores the rise of Google, its founders, and its impact on the internet industry, offering insights into business strategy and programming culture.

The Google Book is a picture book with short poems about imaginary birds. The illustrations consist of exquisite water colours.