Is Google becoming intelligent? Well here’s an example of seemingly intelligent behaviour. The interpretation of abbreviations. Look at the screenshot. I typed in “vuelos baratos a ny” (cheap flights to ny). Google, being Google, correctly interpreteted the ny to mean “Nueva york”. Note the embolded keywords in the results. It reminded me of IBM’s chess wizard Deep Blue beating Kasparov back in 1996. The debate was whether a good database of stored human behaviour processed by a super-fast computer could be more “intelligent” than a human. This is what I think is heppening at Google. Many thousands of people every day use abbreviations and since Google records what people click on it can ”learn” from us what the appropriate connections are. Conclusion: Google is not intelligent, its just good at emulation.