Nick,
You do know that actually is part of Google's official strategy right? They
issued a press release several years ago with some of the details:

<http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html>

Eric



On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 02:09 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
Is it possible that the ecology is evolutionary ... just a bunch of pigeons
>pounding away at keys.  And everytime anybody  outsides Googleinvents anew
>app, Google just opens up a new room full of pigeons?  
>
>Nick 
>
>Nicholas S. Thompson
>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, 
>Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
>http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
>
>
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com>
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
><friam@redfish.com>
>> Date: 2/10/2010 11:55:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Buzz arrives
>>
>> I am fully convinced that there is a method to their madness.   But I 
>> also believe that it would take an astute insider in Silicon Valley to 
>> fully suss out what that is.   I'm sure there will be a "tell
>all" book 
>> about this Google Era.  My last visit to Google was about 4 years ago 
>> (early Google Earth) and they were (for better and
>worse) *all over the 
>> place*.
>>
>> I too am frustrated that their "ecology" is so loosely 
>> defined/coordinated.   Things work way better than one might wish but 
>> they obviously are willing to leave a lot of ragged edges in favor of 
>> lots of new services/apps/ideas.
>> >
>> > They are going to continue down that very same road which has taken 
>> > them to all those multi billions of dollars which they keep stuffing 
>> > into their overflowing coffers.  Why kill the goose that keeps laying 
>> > all of those delicious golden eggs?
>> >
>> > And that is?  Can you describe "that very same road"?  I'm
>serious.  
>> > As far as I can see its near-random.
>>
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Penn State University
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