After reading more and more of The Search, I feel like the best decision is to not recommend this book in its entirety. There is a lot of superfluous information that doesn't really follow the main content of a course on networking information and/or the wisdom of crowds. Chapter 7 is an example of this. Titled "The Search Economy, this section of the book is more focused on those individuals who have made money off of the Google business model and their search engine. Although interesting, it doesn't really provide a lot information that would be necessary for such a course. On the other hand, sections like Chapters 1-3 fit in perfectly. So instead of assigning the whole book, there are specific portions of The Search that would provide good supplemental knowledge to the course.
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you argue a valid point, however I think that Chuck's student would would not appreciate the torture of reading the first three chapters.
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