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After they snared about 15 million of those titles, they tested the program to see which websites it deemed more authoritative.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
the tech companies that greenlight transactions, communications, and online behavior have in many ways become the de facto privatized governments of the Western world.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
“We discovered our superpower was creators,” recalled Ivana Kirkbride, an executive who worked on funded channels. “YouTube couldn’t be what it wasn’t.”
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
This utterly decentralized and amorphous force increasingly self-organizes to provide its own news, entertainment, and services.
Anthony Williams • Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
I began to get an insider’s sense of Google’s product processes—and how serving its users was akin to a crusade.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Philip E. Agre