Today, to search is to google. Specifically, it is to use Google’s search engine to nd something on the Web. As for those other searches that once helped de ne the human condition—for meaning, love, purpose, or God—those have, in little more than a decade, assumed almost secondary importance. From its now almost apocryphal beginnings…
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