It goes well beyond what search engines like Google do when they comb data for keywords.
What search uncovers is not just keywords but also the inherent value of connection.
The hard-pressed Italian navy will be left to mount what search and rescue operations it can.
This means that sometimes unpleasant portrayals of sensitive subject matter online can affect what search results appear for a given query.
After much deliberation, the courts have come to agree with the latter – it is, after all, what search engines have been doing to the web since it originated.
You describe not just what you found, but how you looked, which research databases you used, what search terms you typed, and so on.
In much the way clicks on an Internet browser tell Google what search results and ads to show next, voluminous data enables faster insights, and faster feedback loops, in fields that include manufacturing, national security, health care and agriculture.
However, when they do search the data, they have lots of specialist tools that let them obtain a huge amount of information from it: details of email addresses, IP addresses, who people communicate with, and what search terms they use.
