“Are we searching Google, or is Google searching us”
An interesting find via Slashdot pointing to a story by George Dyson, Engineers’ Dream
When Ed examined the traffic, he realized that Google was doing more than mapping the digital universe. Google doesn’t merely link or point to data. It moves data around. Data that are associated frequently by search requests are locally replicated—establishing physical proximity, in the real universe, that is manifested computationally as proximity in time. Google was more than a map. Google was becoming something else. …
“This was the paradox of artificial intelligence: any system simple enough to be understandable will not be complicated enough to behave intelligently; and any system complicated enough to behave intelligently will not be simple enough to understand.”
vinay deep 
August 16th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
October 31st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
thank you Alex :)