The world's biggest search engine now offers dozens of services, from news aggregation to word processing, all of which are tied together and run on a global network of dozens of huge data-centres.
All reader comments on included articles were copied and pasted directly from the news websites into a word processing package and then uploaded into NVivo QSR 10 software for storage and analysis.
News-processing applications use algorithms to crunch sports statistics, financial data, and other factoids into accessible reports, with the Associated Press publishing about 4,300 AI-generated articles every quarter.
Word processing, a field in which jobs hardly existed five years ago, is the big news in office work these days.
From word processing, data management, and Computer Aided Design in our work environments to social media, crowd funding, and digital news at home, technology is everywhere.
The report also welcomed news that processing was due to start in the near future.
Processing those tweets is more challenging than processing news or formal texts.
The good news is that processing is cheap, de-duplication is readily available through a variety of tools, and sorting through decades of data has never been easier.
For example, processing news documents faster than others in a web indexing system; or, in the astronomy domain, processing images, collected from ground-based telescopes, of objects that are closer to Earth first, and only then images that do not require immediate attention.
It is all digital news gathering and processing.
