April 08, 2004

How Google plan to take over the world... in a nice way Jason Kottke predicts what Google are up to next - little less than worldwide domination. They have the perfect place to store this map (one of the world's largest computers that's all but incapable of crashing). And they are clever at reading this map. Google knows what people write about, what they search for, what they shop for, they know who wants to advertise and how effective those advertisements are, and they're about to know how we communicate with friends and loved ones. What can they do with all that? Just about anything that collection of Ph.Ds can dream up. A bit more information about Google's computing power, and the possibility that it holds.
posted by Blaise Bailey Finnegan 20 years ago
  • WOW. I've made a few jokes about Google taking over the world myself, but I appears it just might happen. Google is becoming so ubiquitous i'm surprised there hasn't been more of backlash. I suppose it's because their products/services are just so damn good. I for one welcome our new Googlebot overlords.
  • 100,000 servers.... dear god.
  • The Onanist - There's a huge backlash, but nobody can find anything about it on the web. duh
  • I think this article has some very important points, particularily in reference to artificial intelligence. The newer text AI-bots use google to look up information - this is just the beggining of a trend. In the future, all devices will use google for information, making it the most powerful marketing system in history. It was also pointed out in the comments that a human brain consists of about 10^11 neurons with probably 10^13 neural connections - consider the amount of storage avaliable per server, and you will realize the depth of Google is almost equal to that of the human mind. To simplify the development of new AI, all that is needed is to utilize the power of the internet for supplimental information (to avoid huge internal learned databases) - and Google is there to index it. All you need in a robot is behavioral experience.