Google doesn’t merely point users to existing information on the Web; it also collects information that it doesn’t share about its users’ behavior. If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a movie’s commercial prospects, can you also use it to forecast market movements or even revolutions?
危险在于谷歌所代表的信息的高度集中-这或许是权威的高度集中。谷歌不仅是为用户在网络上搜索现存的信息时指明了方向，而且还收集用户行为的信息，而这些信息谷歌是不与外界分享的。如果你能用谷歌搜索的规律来跟踪流感爆发和预测一部电影的商业前景的话，那么，你也可以用它来预测市场走势甚至是革命的爆发吗？