Article : The Google Way of Science
Excerpt :
“It may turn out that tremendously large volumes of data are sufficient to skip the theory part in order to make a predicted observation. Google was one of the first to notice this.”
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php
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