原文注释:
· [1] Joseph Weizenbaum mit Gunna Wendt, Wo sind sie, die Inseln der Vernunft im Cyberstrom, Auswege aus der programmierten Gesellschaft, Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 2006.
· [2] Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge, A View from Europe, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007.
· [3] See the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero. In December 2006 Germany pulled out of the Quaero project. Instead of a multimedia search engine German engineers favoured a text-based one. According to Wikipedia "many German engineers also balked at what they thought was becoming too much of an anti-Google project, rather than a project driven by its own ideals".
· [4] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/carr08/carr08_index.html.
· [5] Nicolas Carr, The Big Switch, Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, W.W.Norton, New York, 2008.
· [6] "The blueprints depicting Google's data centre at The Dallas, Oregon are proof that the Web is no ethereal store of ideas, shimmering over our heads like the aurora borealis. It is a new heavy industry, an energy glutton that is only growing hungrier." Ginger Strand, Harper's Magazine, March 2008.
· [7] See http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/
译自:“The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives”by Geer Lovink