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November 21, 2005

 

Google searches for the future 


Does Google know what it's doing?

Probably not. And therein may lie its genius.

I went round the "Googleplex" in Silicon Valley California four years after the company started.

It was unreconstructed 1960s California; bikes in the corridors, lava lamps everywhere, the famous ex-Grateful Dead chef cooking delights in the Google canteen, a grand piano in reception for the Google PhDs to tinkle on during breaks.

But most impressive of all was what I saw above the reception desk: a live selection of searches being requested at that moment all over the world.

I read out a few..and then turned to my Google escort.

"No one in history has ever been able to do this before," I said, overwhelmed by it. "We are looking into the mind of the world."

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