[LINK] Move over Echelon - Was - Google research chief wants 'big data' for science

[Tom Koltai]

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> Google research chief wants 'big data' for science
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> Nature News,Published online: 21 July 2011; | 
> doi:10.1038/news.2011.427
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.427


The last Para of that article is an interesting extension to the
search/DOI/refer paradigm:

Quote/
People respect the opinions of their friends. In some sense, it's
saying: here's a result and here's a reason for this result. We can give
you the same web page or the same video or whatever, and it has an
intrinsic value. But if we can also say 'your friend liked this and he's
an expert in that subject', then that has additional value. I think that
will always be true.
/Quote.

It looks like academia is about to be redesigned by Google...

i.e.: your friend is an economist according to his Google+ profile, he
likes that article on virtual products and his last three published
papers were about virtual 3D games being funded by adverts placed on
game walls in real time via personal clicking history. Therefore,  the
relevance of this article from a research point of view may have
something to do with that...

I can see a Google mashup of a Lisp instruction set based on Coopers
original page ranking formula.

Oh, dear...

Next Google will be inventing new products automatically by association
and filing patents.

I guess that's when patents become invalid, when a computer infers the
next patentable idea from social networking connections, likes, clicks,
blog postings, searches and previous citations. 

A whole new world.