This is a fascinating little piece of software coming out of Google Labs. If you enter a few items that are similar in kind, and hit the Large Set or Small Set button, Google actually looks at other items within the category or “set” that you defined.
Pretty amazing. It could easily be used to study your name on the Net, your business competitors, or, presumably, mathematical symbols that are subsets of large sets. It makes me think twice, nay three times, about the SAT board’s decision to require essay questions in 5 years hence. If Google can do analogies this well, why do we need to be able to do them?
Oh yes, because they make us logical. Hmm, good answer. Take a look:
Google Sets