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Community cleverness required Nature 455, 1 (4 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455001a; Published online 3 September 2008 Researchers need to adapt their institutions and practices in response to torrents of new data — and need to complement smart science with smart searching. The Internet search firm Google was incorporated just 10 years ago this week. Going from a collection of donated servers housed under a desk to a global network of dedicated data centres processing information by the petabyte, Googles growth mirrors that of the production and exploration of data in research. All of which