It’s offical – search is much more than just a cold hard document retrieval algorithm – it’s a medium of art.
Google is the 100th most powerful entity in the contemporary art scene according to the ArtReview magazine. See the full story in The Guardian . The top spot went to François Pinault, but, it was the inclusion of the worlds favourite search engine that caught my attention (not that surprising for a search geek). Even Flickr was mentioned as having the potential to be an exhibition area – but Google was already seen as an invaluable source of art information:
“And while we quickly concluded that Flickr has a way to go yet, it did make us realise how much we rely on Google for our art information. In a strange way, the number of hits an artist, curator or even a dealer gets can legitimise him in the same way it can anyone else.”
