The Search and The Google Story

Since Google has a reputation
for having harrowing interviews, I thought it best to prepare as much
as possible. Even though I wasn’t sure if The Search would be
helpful, I figured it couldn’t hurt. It turned out to be a
fascinating read and gave me a lot to think about and a lot to talk
about. If you don’t know a lot about the history of search and if it
does interest you, I would highly recommend this read. Despite the
cover design, the book is not solely about Google and explores the
full history of search engines.

I also read The Google Story,
again, hoping that it might give me some insight or clever
conversation pieces. I’ll be fully honest that I haven’t finished
this one. Partly because I only had ten days between the phone
interview and the on-site one and I read non-fiction much more
slowly. This is much more specific to Google and it’s more personal
and less about search. It’s more about the people behind the story
and about how the company got started. At least so far. More
interesting if you’re into the company story. Also, well-written.



I think these might fill the non-fiction quota of this and last month.