CIA and Google Invest on Real-time Web Monitoring and Search

Indeed, Washington D.C. is being Googlized and the city is being painted blue, red, green, and yellow by Google. It was just a few days ago I blogged about Google’ security clearance to take the Government to the cloud, they just joined forces with the CIA’s In-Q-Tel investment arm to invest in a real-time Web monitoring firm called Recorded Future. The investments believed to be under $10 million each.

Recorded Future scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”

The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.

Recorded Future currently maintains an index of more than 100 million such events.

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