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"Have you searched Google today? If so, you may have noticed that the fastest search engine just got faster. To be specific, two to five seconds per search faster and, cumulatively, 11 hours every second faster. But it&amp;#039;s not just the speed that has improved. Google&amp;#039;s VP of search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer, explains it best: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re actually predicting what query you&amp;#039;re likely to do and we&amp;#039;re giving you results for that.&amp;quot; A great expample of how it works as printed on NYTimes.com: Start typing &amp;quot;San Francisco&amp;quot; in the search box and, by the time you get through &amp;quot;San,&amp;quot; you will already see a map of the city, a collection of photos of landmarks and links to Alcatraz and the San Francisco visitors&amp;#039; center. In other words, users are now seeing upfront what goes on behind-the-scenes upon any given Google search. Pretty cool, eh? As a digital editor, I am without question impressed. Anything to speed up workflow, right? But, as a women&amp;#039;s service writer, whose focus is largely lifestyle topics (health, mental health, etc.), I vow to remain attune to the potentially harmful affects of soup-to-nuts technology. The faster information is presented to us and communication relayed to each other, the less present (at the wheel, in a conversation) and mindful (of our relationships, of our bodies) we are. A statement from a Google rep as printed in the NYTimes.com: People read more quickly than they type, and seeing preliminary search results under the search box means people will have to type less and can adjust their searches on the fly. Yes, typing less is faster, but is typing less\u2014aka thinking less\u2014healthier?  Suddenly feeling a little tech-needy? Put down the BlackBerry and find out how mindful you are at WomansDay.com. \u2013 Brynn Mannino, Assistant Editor "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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