The "database of intentions" means the personal newspaper will not only tell you what you want to know but what you will want to know in the future. By cross-referencing your interests with others of similar interests and recording their search subjects, stories you will be interested in (the future) are revealed. Check it out. Peter Van

"The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next"
By David Leonhardt
New York Times, p. C1 Wednesday, July 5, 2006

A few years back, a technology writer named John Battelle -- http://battellemedia.com -- began talking about how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future. When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and entered a few words into a search engine, what they were really doing, he realized, was announcing their intentions. . .
A few weeks ago, Google took a big step toward . . . making the database of intentions visible to the world . . . by creating a product called Google Trends. It allows you to check the relative popularity of any search term, to look at how it has changed over the last couple of years and to see the cities where the term is most popular.