Friday, October 29, 2010

Economics through Google Maps

IMF World Economic Outlook release also has
Outlook in Maps. It is better than table or chart if you want to have quick view. I wish IMF also provides option for customisation in case one likes to compare a set of continents or economies.

Google is everywhere. IMF's Map is also powered by Google Maps. I read this interview of Google CEO sometime back in which he said,
"... As you go from the search box [to the next phase of Google], you really want to go from syntax to semantics, from what you typed to what you meant. And that's basically the role of [Artificial Intelligence]. I think we will be the world leader in that for a long time."

About the power of Google, one sentence of his interview explains everything:
". . . that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites."

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