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Megan Garber - Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was formerly an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab, where she wrote about innovations in the media.

Google Psyche: 'Dinosaurs Are ...'

By Megan Garber
Feb 7 2012, 10:43 AM ET Comment

Great moments in Autocomplete, courtesy of Google search and collective consciousness 

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Here are ten returns. Only 2.5 of them are true.

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Google Psyche is an exploration of the stories that the world's Internet searches tell. The company's autocomplete algorithm predicts the word a random web searcher is most likely to type next, providing a statistical probe for our collective consciousness.



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