Cross-posted from 
my blog:
It’s offical - search is much more than just a cold hard document retrieval algorithm - it’s a medium of art.
Google is the 100th most powerful entity in the contemporary art scene according to the ArtReview magazine. See the full story in The Guardian. The top spot went to François Pinault, but, it was the inclusion of the worlds favourite search engine that caught my attention (not that surprising for a search geek). Even Flickr was mentioned as having the potential to be an exhibition area - but Google was already seen as an invaluable source of art information:
“And while we quickly concluded that Flickr has a way to go yet, it did make us realise how much we rely on Google for our art information. In a strange way, the number of hits an artist, curator or even a dealer gets can legitimise him in the same way it can anyone else.”
