http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/04/04/six-key-privacy-moments-in-new-google-book/

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Wired editor Steven Levy spent hundreds of day with Googley types to write In The Plex, which he describes as “the biography of the search engine.” The book is full of juicy insights into Google’s decision-making process around privacy — and some of its decision failures.
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