freejung - 11:27 pm on Oct 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

But what's happening from our perspective is that Google is learning to be smart like a person.

What's interesting about this is that these kind of statements _used_ to be regarded as flaky anthropomorphization -- but now we're seeing these speculations come to fruition. The new infrastructure has enabled Google to take its "brain" to the next level of virtual evolution.