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Steven Levy on his book 'In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives'

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    1. JohnGelles  05/10/2011 04:47 AM Report

      These three allow communication and silence to compete for dominance.

    2. JohnGelles  05/10/2011 04:45 AM Report

      Half the game is secrecy -- let no one see your cards.

    3. JohnGelles  05/10/2011 04:43 AM Report

      Steven Levy on his book 'In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives'

      Google and its rivals -- to do no evil, survive the never ending software battles the human race will conduct, and otherwise stay alive and be worth a lot of money, excite our interest and our envy.

      User-friendly and user-useful are our guides as users. Popularity is not the MAIN point -- it is the ONLY POINT. Popularity keeps changing -- but as it changes the whole nature of the game changes.

      Half the bame is secrecy -- let no one see your cards. the other half is opennness to the universe of science and technology whose purpose is to harness nature and know her real intentions with respect to where she wants to go.

      Helping the search is almost the definition of what we're searching for. Yet social networks in search of nothing at all, may crowd science out of the market for money to stay alive.

      I would like to convince Google and its rivals to define money and its use before they anihilate each other and leave ignorance in charge -- as it has always been.

      The way I see it there is the word, the dollar, and the bomb. These three communicate allow communication and silence to compete for dominance. Which one will prevail? Do we really care? Admiral Rickover answered the question of what follows the bomb's victory? He said we just start the game over again. Even if nothing is left, universes have no truble starting from nothing and moving on.

    4. REMant  05/06/2011 11:56 AM Report

      Every kid in the Washington area for decades has been the product of some preschool program, because both parents work and can easily afford that kind of childcare. For those with poor memories, search was from the first considered "big" because there was little point in having this gigantic bulletin board that is the Internet, if no one could find anything on it. There were dozens of competitors. Google had some big backers and used a good method I suspect was borrowed from a well-known library reference tool. But I think the era of search may be fast drawing to a close. The big deal now is to develop relationships and build markets for services, particularly online services. There are already far too many so-called networking sites devoted to opinions and fads. While you can say this improves the market, it also creates havoc, and is an invitation to manipulation. IMHO, the Google kids are ambitious in the ssme way, I'm sure, as the Microsoft twins, and it is mostly about bucks. But as I've said before, I think Google has been rudderless for some time, and if they don't develop a replacement for search they may be up the creek without a paddle.