Some people are so much smarter than me.

So this guy just wrote a fascinating-looking book that I would really like to look into getting a copy of. I don't know if it's the whole point of the book, but he wrote it do the revelation written about in this post on his blog. Basically, he sees the collective databases of Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. as a digital record (therefore, analyzable record) of the collective intentions, desires, and wants for at least information by the Internet-connected population of the world. So cool. It's basically a record of our culture; what we care about as a world.

Ok, so Britney Spears has been the annually most popular query since 2003 (i can't find the overall data for 2002, but she was the top image search woman), so maybe this isn't a good thing. But still, pretty interesting.