A search engine as a mirror for society: the website Google's popularity is so great, it recently entered everyday word usage as a verb. Using the billions of googlers around the world, the California-based tech firm is compiling a log of search keywords to get a snapshot of emerging cultural trends in the "Google Zeitgeist". But are they spying on their own users in the process? Also on the show, does the media give enough exposure to the visual arts? And: the President vs. federal workers.
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