GOOGLE'S MOON SHOT at The New Yorker.
"No one really knows how many books there are. The most volumes listed in any catalogue is thirty-two million, the number in WorldCat, a database of titles from more than twenty-five thousand libraries around the world. Google aims to scan at least that many. "We think that we can do it all inside of ten years," Marissa Mayer, a vice-president at Google who is in charge of the books project, said recently, at the company's headquarters, in Mountain View, California. "It's mind-boggling to me, how close it is. I think of Google Books as our moon shot."
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"In my own insignificant way, I am trying to understand why white rabbits are cute and how some people are able to pull it out of their rear."
This is cute, but crass and vacuous. I won't take anything you say seriously.