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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: Autocomplete for 'The Internet Isn't ...'

By Megan Garber
Jan 20 2012, 11:11 AM ET Comment

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Yesterday, we looked at what the Internet is (a playground, boring, made of cats). So it's only fitting that today -- with a hat-tip to our friend Alex Howard -- we consider what the Internet isn't.

And: existential angst, every which way! Truly, there is no better reminder of the frailty of the world than when the Internet stops working on my Blackberry Curve.


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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