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Issue 4135 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAExecutives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to "organize the world's information," announced M onday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index. google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks at Google's California headquarters (below). "Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the G oogle home page itself," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press confere nce held in their corporate offices. The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps, which catalogs the entire s urface of the Earth using high-resolution satellites. As a part of Purge's first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google. "A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Goog le Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest," John Battel le wrote in his widely read "Searchblog." "Thanks to Google Purge, you'l l never have to worry that your search has missed some obscure book, bec ause that book will no longer exist. "Book burning is just the beginning," said Google co-founder Larry Page. "This fall, we'll unveil Google Sound, which will record and index all t he noise on Earth.
Enlarge Image Google 2 Page added: "And thanks to Google Purge, anything our global microphone n etwork can't pick up will be silenced by noise-cancellation machines in low-Earth orbit." As a part of Phase One operations, Google executives will permanently era se the hard drive of any computer that is not already indexed by the Goo gle Desktop Search. "We believe that Google Desktop Search is the best way to unlock the info rmation hidden on your hard drive," Schmidt said. Although Google executives are keeping many details about Google Purge un der wraps, some analysts speculate that the categories of information Go ogle will eventually index or destroy include handwritten correspondence , buried fossils, and private thoughts and feelings. The company's new directive may explain its recent acquisition of Celera Genomics, the company that mapped the human genome, and its buildup of a vast army of laser-equipped robots.
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