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“Google’s Memory Upgrade“

If Google simply uses Blogger to UPDATE its database more rapidly, it won’t change the Web experience as we know it in any profound way. But a genuine trailblazing device would be a way of preserving — and widening — the paths that our lives have carved through information space.

Sounds like a good idea. Amazon already uses a similar approach to “remember” what product pages you’ve recently viewed, etc. There are a number of important issues, however. One is, of course, the fact that so many web pages we visit only have a temporary URL, and often become inaccessible after a week or so (unless you are willing to pay for the right to access them).

So, is this what Google is up to with its recent purchase of Blogger? Time will tell, I guess…

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 5:06 pm and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.