Planet Google by Randal Stross

This is a brilliant book. I read it recently. Its all about the company google and how it affects our daily life. It talks about how the company grew from its small beginnings to its great heights. Its basically explains how the founders principle of organising information in the web has had such far reaching effects on our daily life that googling has become a word accepted in most dictionaries. The way the company grew , the way it managed to do things that others thought was stupid, the expansion during the dotcom bust and so on. Its just so interesting to understand how such a large company like google works. The book allows us to see the google as a company from both an internal and an external perspective as the author was involved with google in many ways. The way google expanded into so many new fields is just mind blowing. The book explains that the success of google was a combination of great skill and the luck factor of being at the right place at the right time. It basically is a very interesting book and a must read for any google fan like me