everythingiveeverwantedtoknow.com — Martine Syms

• "everything" represented by search result from 3-year period


• "calls attention to the way one user's language was shaped by the larger system that surrounded it"


• "sometimes revealing, but mostly opaque"


• "use of such data to measure and classify users"


• emphasis on language over content


• the act of searching over the search terms themselves


• unique because no intervention into Google's usual function


• OuLiPo → systematic and self-restricting way of making texts, rejected the idea that the unconscious should be a primary souce for literary production


• project "leaves the reader uncertain as to whether this data set offers more than a glimpse of her interior life"


• "Syms reduces herself to her activity as an internet user"


• activity as performance → did the fact that she was keeping record change her searching habits?


• why don't searches link to the search results? → "you could see what I was interested in, but you wouldn't get to see anything more"