Larry Page sets out his Vision

For all those who can't get enough of Google

[Receptional]

On UK's Channel4

The answer - artificial intelligence - with search engines so powerful they would understand "everything in the world". It's the dream of Larry Page - one of Google's founders and now a multi-billionaire.

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I found this worth going through. Interesting to see the Google "heads of state" in a Q&A session.

[BillyS]

Bill Gates is a little more grounded as a visionary. Not sure if that's good or bad. This interview does confirm what I suspected. There really is no master plan. They are throwing things out there and seeing what people grab.

[aleksl]

There was NEVER a master plan. They got lucky on algo, they got lucky on financing, they got lucky someone under their roof suggested putting ads on top of that scraped content. A Master Plan? What a joke.

As many people mentioned above, they don't even begin to comprehend "everything"

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon (c)Albert Einstein

[aleksl]

Maybe they should start their theosophical ABC with "nothing"...not to be confused with NULL...or same as everything, in a sense. Maybe once they comprehend nothing they will finally stop with unintelligent "visionary" talks.

[percentages]

The vision:

"We are search, we are search, we are search"

The Master Plan.....Put nothing on your site but one little box under a logo that says...."We must be search, we offer nothing else"!

Yahoo and MSN had an identity crisis, they wanted to be homepages, portals, your source for everything (including search). Google won search because they kept it simple!

Now Google sees a need to diversify....a problem Y! and MS had mnay years ago. Once Google concentrates on that problem they won't be "search" anymore!

The quality of the content doesn't really matter, it is just a game of psychology ;)