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September 3, 2010

Strange But True!

Q. Not to be sacrilegious but in what sense is Google godlike?

A. Google can't love or create or forgive but it can lay claim to being omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, argues Sally Adee in IEEE Spectrum magazine. Omnipresent? There's Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Earth, Google Mars, Google Apps. “They're all everywhere, all the time.” So check.


 
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