I warn you, this is a long read but I would like some opinions on this. Bs or no?
Dear Reader,
Last summer, Scotland Yard brought down the most dangerous terrorist cell to hit Great Britain in modern history.
It took just 8 days.
And on the 9th day, British tabloids - with full-color pictures and details of the raids - sang the glories of swift justice. The Sun, for one, wrote this as their morning headline: “Got the Bastards!”
But there’s something Scotland Yard (and the CIA… and NSA… and intelligence-gathering agencies all over the world who helped with the investigation) didn’t announce to the public…
Something you won’t see in any of the papers…
It’s the reason these terrorists were caught so fast.
In fact, it’s the reason they never stood a chance in the first place…
Unbeknownst to the Subway Bombers, Scotland Yard has access to a technology so powerful… it will soon change our world in ways we can now only imagine.
I want you to know this up-front: What I’m about to tell you is strictly confidential. And you probably won’t believe most of what you hear.
I don’t blame you.
It was only after months of deep investigation that I found the truth myself - and it’s without a doubt the single most extraordinary thing I’ve seen in over a dozen years of technology research.
In my opinion, no other technology will have a more far-reaching, truly immeasurable global impact.
But that’s just half of the story…
All new technologies - even those that seem beyond human imagination - come from somewhere.
This one sprang from the mind of a Presbyterian minister who lived in England more than 300 years ago.
It then passed through the hands of a man who used it as inspiration to create the World Wide Web.
And it’s landed, recently, in the labs of one of the most cutting-edge technology firms in the world.
In the coming months, this company will begin disseminating this technology across the globe as part of a computer program codenamed IDOL.
As they do, they will simultaneously shatter and reshape everything we know about computers… and their capacity for intelligence.
And here’s my prediction: If you invest in this company today, it will be the only investment you’ll ever need to make.
There’s a lot to this story. And in the following pages, I’ll tell you as much as I can.
What you decide to do with this information is up to you.
But please: No matter what you decide, I respectfully ask that you keep everything you read today to yourself.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Due to the complexity of this science - and the mammoth scale on which it will soon be integrated into our lives - I can only explain it by drawing comparisons.
And it begins with the Internet.
One man made the Internet possible. His name is Tim Berners-Lee.
In the early 1980s, he wrote an enigmatic string of words that became the basis of the computer code that spawned the World Wide Web:
Enquire Within Upon Everything.
That code, coupled with a new computer language he wrote called HTML, turned the government’s Internet experiment into a reality.
Suddenly, the many tiny networks of various government agencies - from NASA’s SPAN to the Military’s ARPANET - were connected. But more importantly, this new code and this new language enabled the Internet to continue to grow exponentially.
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When Berners-Lee unveiled HTML and the Enquire code, only about 600,000 people were using computer networks.
Within 5 years, the Internet population grew to over 40 million. At one point, it was doubling every 53 days.
Today, just in the United States, there are nearly 200 million people on-line at any given time.
The technology being used today by the world’s top spy agencies - the technology that will soon be unleashed to the public - will spread just as fast… if not faster…
Why?
Because Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at the World Wide Web Consortium - the organization he founded to oversee the direction of the Internet - have spent the last 10 years of their lives making sure of it.
In short, this technology is the next generation of the Internet. This is the “new Web.”
It will use existing Web structure to proliferate itself.
And when it’s finally in place - installed around the world - Berners-Lee says:
“Computers will become so powerful and there will be so many of them with so much storage that they will in fact be more powerful than a brain… and will be able to write programs as big as a brain.
“[We are moving],” he continues, “from the Web of today to a Web in which machine reasoning will be ubiquitous and devastatingly powerful.”
What does that mean?
Let me explain…
The World’s Most Powerful Search Engine
This technology can best be described as the world’s most powerful search engine.
It is, in a very real sense, like a detective. In fact, Scotland Yard calls their system Holmes II.
This technology, reports InformationWeek, doesn’t just identify a piece of information, “but also… understands what it’s about.”
The best way to explain this is through example…
Defense engineering company BAE Systems, formerly British Aerospace, is using an early version of this technology right now.
Already, they’re reporting that the time it takes for them to locate information with this system has been cut by 90%.
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But here’s what’s even more amazing:
This technology saved the company millions of dollars when two of its computers - simply by “talking” to each other - discovered that two groups of engineers in different parts of the world were working on the same project… without knowing it.
No one at BAE asked their computers to find this information. They had no way of knowing to even ask the question.
Here’s how it went down:
One group of engineers was looking for specifications on a certain project. When their computer became “aware” of the need for information (more on that in a second) it went searching for the answer.
While it was searching, it ran into another computer on the network. It started asking questions - finding out what the other computer knows. What it found out was that the second computer was looking for the same information for a different group.
Hard to believe?
I warned you.
Other early clients are reporting similar successes with the new technology. Gerry Louw, CIO of Video Monitoring Services, says this technology has “transformed the way we actually do business.”
Thinking of this technology as the world’s most powerful search engine is an easy way to visualize what the “new Web” is all about.
But it’s not just a metaphor.
The first application of this theory - designed by the tiny company I’d like to tell you about - is indeed an intelligent search engine… that works on your existing network.
And while trying to fathom the profit potential of an entirely new Internet may be as futile as trying to calculate the profit potential of water – it’s in this arena - the search engine market - that we stand to see our biggest immediate gains with this stock.
I’m estimating about 400% in seven hours…
The Myth of the Internet
Before I explain, I want to get back to the idea of how BAE’s computer became “aware” of the need for a certain piece of information.
I’ll start with this:
It’s easy to think of the Internet as a “place” we go to when we “get on-line” - as a plane of infinite space where we window-shop for information.
But that’s not reality.
When you type a Web address into your browser – say, www.stansberryresearch.com – what you’re really doing is telling your computer to go to the Stansberry Research computer (where we store our newsletters, reports and BLASTs), get stuff, and bring it back.
When you type keywords into a search engine like Google you’re doing the same thing. You’re not “scanning” the Web. You’re telling your computer to find “X” and bring it back.
My point is: At no time does your computer actually understand what it’s looking for. It’s just getting what you tell it to. And if you want to find something, you have to know what questions to ask… and what combination of keywords will get you the right answer.
It’s the same whether you’re using Yahoo! or Google or any other commercial search engine available today.
This new technology - this new search engine - is completely different. It’s what some experts describe as “always-on search.”
Meaning: you don’t have to tell your computer to look for information. It’s always looking for information.
How does it know what to look for?
By first looking at what’s in your computer - and what you’re currently working on.
Say you’ve got a word document open and you’re writing an article on the various assassination theories of JFK. Your computer will go out onto the Web, find relevant information and bring it back - without you asking for it.
And using this technology, your computer continues to search - by association.
As you accept certain documents and reject others, your computer learns which are more relevant and which aren’t… and goes back out to find more information that is closer to what you’re actually looking for.
This is a different kind of search. Called a Bayesian search.
It’s based on a theory proposed some 300 years ago by a Presbyterian minister named Thomas Bayes.
The details of the theory are not important. What is important is this:
I believe it will become the new language of search engines.
Let me ask you: If you needed to find obscure information, would you rather sit at your computer randomly trying different combinations of keywords and reading dozens of documents to find what you’re looking for…
Or would you rather send your computer out to do the work for you?
I know what I’d rather do.
And that’s precisely why Scotland Yard and the rest of the world’s top spy agencies are about to see the world’s most powerful search engine handed over to the public…
Because what Internet users need more than anything is a way to navigate through the massive amounts of information they find there. Without a way to do this - without a good way to search - the Internet is about as useful as a library of books without titles.
Indeed, today, close to 90% of Internet users visit sites like Google and Yahoo! every day. Search engines now surpass email as the #1 Internet application.
And where the people go… so does the money…
Marketers spent more than $5 billion in 2004 placing ads on search engines. That’s supposed to double by 2009 - not just in the U.S., but all over the world.
Google, which had 280,000 advertiser accounts in its system in 2004, expects that number to reach more than 650,000 by 2008.
Indeed, by providing what many perceive as the best search engine available today, Google has taken this ad revenue (which has grown from $300 million to $1.6 billion in two years) and transformed itself from a tiny startup with $1 million in venture capital to a mega-corporation worth nearly $140 BILLION in the stock market.
Not a bad business.
Now on to that 400% in seven hours…
The World’s Most Powerful
Search Engine, Reprise
“Sometime soon,” reports InformationWeek, “Amazon.com, Apple Computer, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo may realize that a San Francisco-based startup has found what they’ve been looking for - a better way to search…
“They’re taking the market to the next level.”
Nelson Mattos, Director of Information Integration at IBM Research says “This is the next generation.”
What are they talking about?
The company that developed what Australasian Science calls “the world’s most powerful search engine.”
The retrieval program that’s used by the world’s top spy agencies.
The technology that helped Scotland Yard bring a terrorist cell to its knees in just 8 days.
For years, it was impossible for anyone outside the government - and a select group of corporations willing to test the technology - to get their hands on this powerful new tool.
Just a few weeks ago, this tiny company announced that all that is about to change - starting in Northern China.
And an investment in this company today could easily return 400% in a single trading day.
How do I know?
Because that’s exactly what happened recently for the shareholders of a tiny Chinese search-engine company called Baidu.
Baidu started its first day as a public company by issuing just over 40 million shares at about $27 a share.
By the end of the day the stock was worth more than $122 a share - for a six-and-a-half hour gain of more than 350%.
And Baidu is nothing special - not in the world of search engines anyway. It works the same way all the other ones do.
When the tiny company I’m about to tell you about unleashes “the most powerful search engine in the world,” it will basically eliminate Baidu and every other competitor in sight.
And there’s no reason in the world to believe that it won’t be met with the same frenzy that met Baidu just weeks ago.
First, it’s important to know: China is the place that every Internet company in the world is trying to break into. For one, its sheer size gives companies an unprecedented market to work in. Secondly, China boasts the fastest-growing Internet population in the world.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley predict that China will soon surpass the U.S. (and its nearly 200 million subscribers) by 2009.
Yahoo! just spent $1 billion to get a piece of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com.
Google is rumored - of all things - to be considering a buyout of Baidu.
But both companies have had their problems. Google was actually shut down by the Chinese - several different times - for linking to content deemed “subversive.”
That’s why Yahoo! just linked up with Alibaba. To smooth relations and get a stronger foothold.
This tiny company is so far ahead of the game, it’s ridiculous.
They just announced a partnership with China Netcom - one of China’s biggest telecom companies, with a customer base of 110 million people and 95% of the market share in Northern China - the region that includes the nation’s capital, Beijing.
Here’s their strategy for going commercial:
This small company is bringing a third company into the deal - a revolutionary tech firm that’s been quietly testing beta versions of this technology in the commercial sector for years.
Believe it or not: If you know where to go on the Web, you can test this technology right now.
With the commercial version of the technology in its most advanced stage ever, it’s ready for the public.
The deal between these three companies was announced just weeks ago.
Once the deal closes, I suspect the two tech companies teaming with China Netcom will merge. And once that happens, the commercial arm of the combined company will be spun off as a separate, publicly-traded firm.
When this new spin-off IPOs, you could see 400% in 7 hours - just like investors in Baidu.
Of course, all this is beside the much more important point.
From China - inside the fastest-growing and most important Internet market - this tiny company will begin to spread the “new Web.”
As it takes hold… it will literally reshape everything we know about computers and how we use them. And from there, the gains you could see from this stock could be astronomical.
There’s simply too much information to tell you the full story here…
And believe me, there’s much more to tell…
That’s why, on January 23rd, I’m holding a private meeting with the members of my Diligence organization.
This is your invitation to join us.
During the meeting, I’ll detail everything I know about this groundbreaking, society-altering technology…
Which companies are at the forefront of this movement…
And why even mega-corporations like Microsoft are starting to get nervous. (Briefly: it’s been said by some experts that Microsoft - the undisputed king of software development - will never have the capability of companies like these.)
Here’s how to reserve your seat today…
Reserve Your Seat before
Monday, January 23rd
On January 23rd, I will disclose everything I’ve learned about this situation. Every detail. From the macro and micro perspective.
This meeting, which I will hold via conference call, is reserved exclusively for Diligence members.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity - but are not currently a member - this is your invitation to join us.
If you’re busy on the 23rd, don’t worry. I’ll post my written reports of this situation and full transcripts of our meeting on the Diligence website. You’ll be able to access them whenever you want.
I’ve been an independent technology analyst for more than a dozen years. I also spent 10 years teaching and writing about technology at five major research universities - Miami, Berkeley, Florida, Regensburg and Minnesota.
All this experience has led me to some phenomenal investing opportunities. Since the inception of Diligence, members have seen gains like this:
One company I recently found is perfecting a new technology called “WiMAX.” And big corporations are lining up to buy it. Since we recommended this company, it’s up 260%.
Another company, which is using technology to discover new sources of energy, is up 144% since it was added to the Diligence portfolio.
And a third company I found just started the final legs of a Phase III trial for a new flu vaccine that could soon make the typical flu shot obsolete. This recommendation is up 280% so far.
