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Monday, July 16, 2007

google mindreading


picture from beyondmagic

I saw this really neat post on HyperHappen's blog. The gist of it is that whenever anything happens, before anyone has even written any news about it, Google already knows about it due to incoming searches.

“When there is a blackout in New York, the first articles appear [on the web] in 15 minutes; we get queries in two seconds”.
Google

The second point is, I guess, can this information be used as news somehow? As microblogging takes off, maybe a bunch of microblog posts put together will form a half decent news article?

Link to a global visual representation of people microblogging via Twitter.

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