World Information

It has always been Google's mission to organized the worlds information. This is an ambitious goal on their part considering that information is infinite. First, how do classify information? Second, they are an online presence, and not all information is on the Web, not yet anyways.

Google, however is on its way, according to The Next Big Thing owns ten of thousands of servers and over 50 data centers spread throughout this Earth. With this infrastructure in place, they have the data storage and processing power to gather the information.

Gathering the information is not everything though, they need to organize this data. Instead of defining categories to throw information into, they have taken a very simple approach to this, let the user categorize it for them via searches. In other words, the user does a search and they simply find keywords within all the pages in storage.

With this tremendous undertaking, they have launch a series of products over the years. A new one was announced today, they are starting to archive news information. Now, what good is old news? To most of us not useful at all, however, to historians, researches and students, this archive could become the number one encyclopedia to turn to.

The bottom line is that you have to give a lot of respect to a company who sets out on a mission and sticks to it. Most companies diversified their products and services and it is rare to find one which sticks to its roots while innovating along the way. I do find it interesting that most of the new tools that Google have put out in the past year to year and half are ideal for Universities. I guess they realize that they have saturated their reach in the consumer and business space, time to move on into the educational market. How soon till we see Google University?