Search is a particularly disruptive technology. Traditional search engines, e.g. Google, have made searching for certain types of information phenomenally effec

Search is a particularly disruptive technology. Traditional search engines, e.g. Google, have made searching for certain types of information phenomenally effective. This has resulted in interesting privacy ramifications ("Google-stalking") and issues with research (easy access to bad information). Wolfram|Alpha works by way of a new search paradigm: rather than simple data-mining it seeks to construct /new/ information based on a query. What do you foresee as the social consequences of a computational search engine?