If Google is a religion, what is its God? It would have to be The Algorithm. Faith in the possibility of an omniscient and omnipotent algorithm appears to be what Messrs Page and Brin have in common. … Wisely or not, Google wants to be a new sort of deus ex machina.
- - “St Lawrence of Google,” published in The Economist, January 12, 2006.
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