How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by John Battelle
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Business.
What 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....
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Business.
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Keith Rabois
Technology executive and investor
“For a good historical perspective on the evolution of the consumer Internet world, I would start with John Battelle's The Search.”
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