God is a shout in the street! - Stephen Dedalus

Jacques-Alain Miller is right here: “[Google] is the cataract: the ostentatious white of the page blackens suddenly, the void is overturned by an onslaught, succinctness becomes logorrhea.” And wrong here:

What is sure is that it is stupid. If the responses proliferate on the screen, it is because they are mistaken. The initial signal is made of words, and a word does not have a single meaning. Thus, meaning escapes Google, which encodes, but doesn’t decode. It is the word in its stupid materiality that it memorizes. Thus, it is always up to you to find in the haystack of results, the needle that is meaningful to you.

Whatever Google’s brain is, it is always passing just short of thought’s grasp: not dumb or stupid or brutal, just some other intelligence … no syntagm rendered for “thought” applies.

Meaning is inverted. Words, which sag in all their stupid overdetermination, operate here on an entirely different plane of immanence (to use that good Deleuzo-Guattarian parlance) - they are crystalline, brilliant, indisputable in their materiality, their absolute weight in bytes.

Thought is a sieve for Google; they are wildly, totally other. Whatever decision Google makes it does so from the “negative part of [the] negation” (Badiou) of thought. It does so, one might say, in total excess of thought, and from an order that escapes desire or meaning.

“God doesn’t reply; Google, always, and immediately.” But it replies with a sort of charade - the kind of frenetic and only vaguely descriptive gesticulations of foreigners asking for directions - PageRank is a kind of waving and pointing, while Google chatters on, largely for its own benefit, in its mother tongue: volume. We can read the gesture: Make sense of this. Make sense of my ludicrous volume.

Any encounter takes place entirely in this difference, in the rift between between an order and a desire trying to communicate. Difference differing: “Thus, the necessity for it to pose as an axiom its fundamental kindness.”