AlyssaS - 8:02 pm on Aug 7, 2011 (gmt 0)

The wall street journal had an article about this a few days ago, with an excerpt. They chose the "human stories" for the excerpt rather than the technical stuff, but here it is for those who want to read it:

[online.wsj.com...]

Edit: sorry, just realised this is an excerpt from a completely different book, "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards, which has just been published.

But it may be of interest to people anyway (I hope!)