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Mechanical Zoo's social search will swaddle you in warm, safe groupthink

Jackson West · 04/22/08 12:40PM

Searching the Internet has a downside: With 1.3 billion people in the world moving an estimated 627 petabytes of information a day, it's all too easy to encounter different cultures, unique perspectives, unfamiliar worldviews and opinions strikingly different than your own. Such heterogeny of tastes and classes and backgrounds is troubling, I know. Never fear, the ex-Googlers are here! Former Google News product lead Nathan "Zip" Stoll, former Google biz-dev manager Max "Blue Lightning" Ventilla and former Google security engineer Fritz "The Cracker" Schneider and friends pilot stealth startup Mechanical Zoo.