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Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us?

Posted by kdawson on from the eye-to-eye dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The folks at the Edge have published a short story by George Dyson, Engineer's Dreams. It's a piece that fiction magazines wouldn't publish because it's too technical and technical publications wouldn't print because it's too fictional. It's the story of Google's attempt to map the web turning into something else, something that should interest us. The story contains some interesting observations such as, '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.' After you read it, you'll be asking the same question the author does — 'Are we searching Google, or is Google searching us?'"

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  1. ATTENTION SHOPPERS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Short answer... no by gringer · · Score: 0, Troll

    We're not searching Google, we're searching the Internet. Google is a tool that can be used (and often is used) to facilitate this search.

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    Ask me about repetitive DNA