Then they pass it along to the government.
SAN FRANCISCO — The change, called “Google Instant,’’ is the closest the 12-year-old company has come to realizing its founders’ ambition to build a search engine that reads its users’ minds.
That's why I flood the thing with stupid s*** as well as misspellings.
The achievement wasn’t lost on Google cofounder Sergey Brin, who jokingly told reporters that the company’s lightning-quick computers are morphing into the “other third’’ of people’s brains.
“It’s a little bit of a new dawn in computing,’’ Brin said....
To minimize the chances of offending people or inadvertently exposing children to inappropriate material, Google has programmed the instant results to block websites deemed to be pornographic, violent, or hateful.
That's not me.
That restriction may trigger complaints that Google is stifling freedom of expression or unfairly screening out some sites....
That is happening in some cases anyway.
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