New Book on Google Shows Gaffes in China
Steven Levy’s written a new book on Google, In the Plex, set to come out on April 12. The New York Times received an advance copy and published a piece on it by Claire Cain Miller. The article focuses on gaffes revealed by the book that Google made while expanding into China, but there’s this tidbit snuck in near the end:
Mr. Schmidt asked that Google remove from the search engine information about a political donation he had made. Sheryl Sandberg, a Google executive who is now Facebook’s chief operating officer, told him that was unacceptable.
I… this is an April Fools’ joke, right?