Google Speaks Book Review

I’ve just finished reading the book, Google Speaks.  I must say, I was a bit disappointed in the book.  Maybe it is because I’ve previously read 4 other Google books, but I was expecting a bit more.  I was hoping that the book would be based on interviews with Google’s 2 founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page, but it wasn’t.  Just the usual public domain information.  It seems that everyone wanting to make a buck these days could just simply go and copy what someone else has already written.  This is something that I find a lot. Special in technology books, you often get that writers will take parts of existing book, and quote them, to the extent that 50% of the book is quotes.  It suck when you have read the book that the author is quoting from though.  Just paid R150 for nothing.

So no, I will not recommend Google Speaks.  There was only I thought provoking idea in the whole book for me, but I will leave that for another post.