Google+7

with Sebastian Schmieg, Website, 2011

Google+7, Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg, 2011 Google+7, Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg, 2011

Google+7 is based on the S+7 procedure, employed by OuLiPo. Each noun in the query is replaced with the seventh one following it in the dictionary. In this way the rigid directness of the search engine is broken up and an artificial form of serendipity is provoked.