Google's Two Revolutions; The goal is to have everything at your fingertips, instantly available to anyone who wants to see it.

Publication: Newsweek

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Byline: Steven Levy (Additional reporting by Brad Stone)

If it weren't for the war, and the terrorism and the election, 2004 might well be remembered as the Year of Search. Maybe it will anyway. If we get through these rocky times with civilization's underpinnings intact, our descendants, swimming in total information, might be required to memorize the date of last August's Google IPO as a cultural milestone. Except that in the post-Google era, memorization will be obsolete, because even the most obscure fact will be instantly retrievable.

Google's IPO is important not because of the billions of bucks involved, but as a symbol of the impact of the two revolutions its...

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