Simon Willison’s Weblog

The mind of God

28th July 2002

Red Herring: Dinner with the mind behind the mind of God, an informal interview with Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google. The “mind of God” reference stems from this quote:

But in the end, the conversation returned to search. What would a perfect search engine look like? we asked. “It would be the mind of God. Larry [Page] says it would know exactly what you want and give you back exactly what you need.”