BOOK/MAGAZINE: What Would Google Do ?

'Planet Google' by Randall Stross, "What Would Google Do?" Asked in 2002 to describe the "ultimate" search engine, Google co- founder Sergey Brin half-jokingly pointed to HAL 9000, the supercomputer from the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL . . . had a lot of information, could piece it together, could rationalize it. Now hopefully . . . it would never have a bug like HAL did where he killed the occupants of the spaceship. But that's what we're striving for, and I think we've m...

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