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Google meets Sherlock Holmes

In any one day, homeland security and law enforcement agencies might sift through thousands of complex and often contradictory clues about potential terrorist threats. These clues can be buried in a landslide of raw text, recorded messages, surveillance data, and bank records that would fill millions of iPods each day. To thwart another Sept. 11, analysts must meld the encyclopedic eye of Google-age technology with Sherlock Holmes's inductive genius.

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