Google’s Earth

Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers.

Google makes no moral judgements. That is William Gibson's problem with it.

Google does not correlate its results. It does not go to the references it exposes.

It draws no conclusions. It knows nothing of should. In fact it knows nothing and cannot know. It is not self-aware.

You have done a very good job of guarding your privacy. Those things I have discovered You exposed. The search engines did not find them for me because I had no search term. I think I have not exposed a useful search term here. I most certainly have tried to avoid such.

Google has a finite time horizon. The "way-back machine" exists but one must know of the project and intentionally consult it. Events more than seven(?) years in the past are hidden from casual search. There is just too much data. I am uncertain of how that time horizon works.