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Battelle, J. ( 2005) The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. New York: Portfolio.

Jarvis, J. ( 2009) ‘What Would Google Do?’ New York: Collins Business.

Vise, D.A. and M. Malseed ( 2005) The Google Story. New York: Delacorte Press.

Zimmer, M. ( 2009) ‘Web Search Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Web Search Engines’, in J. Hunsinger , M. Allen and L. Klastrup (eds) International Handbook of Internet Research. The Netherlands: Springer.