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Sunday, December 08, 2002 |
Find Just About Any Thing, Any Time
Newsweek has a story about Google this week. It is very interesting reading, especially because I have used Google for many of the things mentioned in the article.
On this site, I use Google to provide you with relevant links to something I've written about, such as the current Google search for the phrase, "you shall not commit adultery".
Right at the end of the article is this:
Google’s uses are limited only by the imaginations of those who punch in 150 million searches a day. What they search for is fascinating: at the reception area at Google, a scrolling, real-time selection of queries (filtered to remove sex-related items) is projected on a bare wall, a temperature probe of what the world wants to know. The company also provides a more methodical analysis with its Google Zeitgeist, posted every week on the site: a top 10 list of rising and falling queries.
I wonder how much time the folks in the Google reception area spend just watching the queries roll by? That'd be kind of interesting, at least for a while, but maybe also distracting.
The Zeitgeist feature is interesting, as well. I didn't know about it. Lots of statistics about Google queries.
8:55:19 PM 
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© Copyright 2004  Gary N. Petersen.
Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.lockman.org
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