Friday, July 30, 2010

A Google - CIA Alliance



Google, CIA Invest In 'Future' Of Web Monitoring -- ABC News

Recorded Future Scours Tens of Thousands of Web Sites to Predict the Future.

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking at the 'invisible links' between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events."

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More News On This Google - CIA Venture

Google, CIA invest equal amounts in company to predict future -- Digital Journal
CIA and Google take stake in web monitor Recorded Future -- Research
Google and CIA joint venture -- Bit Tech
CIA And Google’s Joint Investment Raising Eyebrows -- Gizmodo
Google Teams Up With CIA, Invests in Analytics Firm -- Fast Company
Google, CIA team up to invest in web monitoring software -- Tech Eye
Google, CIA Invest In ‘Future’ Of Web Monitoring -- The Danger Room
Google, US Gov’t Back Same Data Mining Startup -- Search Engine Land

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