Successful algorithms crave data and in creating them “they” cannot learn enough about us-
“As CEO Eric Schmidt explained last May [2007] “We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don’t know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google’s expansion.” He said that Google wants to be able to answer when users ask, for example, “the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’” from Google: Search and Data Seizure written by Jeffrey Chester in The Nation, October 15, 2007, (http://www.thenation.com/article/google-search-and-data-seizure). Info about the author is at http://www.alternet.org/authors/468/ and a link to the article text retitled Will Google’s Greed Ruin the Internet? is at http://www.alternet.org/story/6421/will_google%27s_greed_ruin_the_internet/ . Jeffrey Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy
(http://www.democraticmedia.org/).
