It’s no secret since even top folks at Mountain View, where Google is headquartered, claim the list to actually exist. What is that list?

Basically, tracking IP network addresses, it is possible for any search engine to know exactly which search requests come from where and probably from whom.

For instance, say Google decides to look for all search requests of a robotics lab in Japan, it is feasible and has already been done.

Consequently, Google is an incredible intelligence warfare tool: thanks to Google, government agencies (Interpol, NSA, etc.) may not only track research going on in terror or mafia labs (e.g. cryptology), but if extracted and analized thoroughly, Google may provide any company’s competitor with the exact keywords and hence hot research topics discussed in a lab. Despite what people start thinking about Google, I don’t think Google represents any “Big Brother” threat. On the contrary, I believe Google actually democratizes information a great deal rather than controlling its flows. Furthermore, considering the huge potential the search business still sits on, there is room for competitors in semantic search, image search, video search, etc. So I guess Google is right not to take anything for granted and keeping attracting top talents.

Well, teasing’s over now. Here’s the business idea. Say you’re an R&D lab. The idea actually relies in a software or router-embedded software aiming at bombing fake search requests to Google in order to actually des- or mis-inform the search engine on your current research topics. The system would be clever enough to select relevant and changing keywords, and mixing it with the usual crap such as googling the nearest sushi bar or your boss’s name. Well thought, designed and hacked, such a software could easily be sold for huge amounts of money to, for instance, Embassies or Defence companies outside the US.

So, to recapitulate: the idea is a software that lowers the efficiency of economic warfare search requests analyses through actively simulating fake but still R&D-wise relevant search requests to Google.

Got it?

As usual, feedbacks most welcome.

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