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Google Boss Warns Politicians

by Actual News Geezer | October 4, 2006 at 06:12 am

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Is Google freaking out over its own power? Strangely, Google chairman Eric Schmidt warned a bunch of conservative politicians in the UK that they had better watch what they say because Google is watching them.

NowPublic members will be especially interested in this quote from Schmidt:

"One of my messages to them (politicians) is to think about having
every one of your voters online all the time, then inputting 'is this
true or false.' We (at Google) are not in charge of truth but we might
be able to give a probability," he told The Financial Times

LONDON (Reuters) - Imagine being able to check instantly whether or not statements made by politicians were correct. That is the sort of service Google Inc. boss Eric Schmidt believes the Internet will offer within five years.

Politicians have yet to appreciate the impact of the online world, which will also affect the outcome of elections, Schmidt said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday.

He predicted that "truth predictor" software would, within five years, "hold politicians to account." People would be able to use programmes to check seemingly factual statements against historical data to see to see if they were correct.

"One of my messages to them (politicians) is to think about having eve