In Inetbib, Bernhard Eversberg referred to the article "Inside The Wide World Of Google", 28 March 2004, from CBS News. Here's a nice paragraph:
"My guess is about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search", says Craig Silverstein. "But we can make slow and steady progress, and maybe one day we'll get there." Silverstein is Google's CTO...