Accoona's News Search platform is complemented by one of the world's largest databases of online business information. The Accoona QuickProfile database -- comprising of hundreds of millions of records on companies worldwide -- merges traditional Web site content with relevant business data, providing one-click access to relevant business information such as primary contact name, address, fax and phone number etc. in an easy format. Will this new bubble in the ocean of Internet continue to create waves?
Forget about businesses, we are quickly moving toward a society where everything about everyone can be known by anyone with the dollars to spend. Pretty soon every trip you take will be recorded on a database somewhere, every move you make, and probably everything you say as well. Possibly even everything you think will be recorded eventually, as implants become more prolific to "enhance" your IQ and so on ... I expect the "rich" in the future will be those who can afford to shield their personal lives from investigation. It is "Brave New World" and "1984" rolled into one and there is bugger all anyone can do about it ...