A startup called Recorded Future
has developed a tool that scrapes real-time data from the Internet to
find hints of what will happen in the future. The company's search tool
spits out results on a timeline that stretches into the future as well
as the past.
The 18-month-old company gained attention earlier this year after receiving money from the venture capital arms of both Google and the CIA. Now the company has offered a glimpse of how its technology works.
Conventional search engines like Google use links to rank and connect different Web pages. Recorded Future's software goes a level deeper by analyzing the content of pages to track the "invisible" connections between people, places, and events described online.
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Author: Tom Simonite
