In the modern world, when there’s a buring question that you need answering, what do you do? You turn to the internet of course.

After the news of Michael Jackson’s death hit the world’s media last week, Google recieved so many searches for The King of Pop that they actually thought that they were under attack. We’re more than used to getting the information we want and with smart phones and wireless internet, we’re used to getting that information quicker than ever.

But there are still some questions that the internet can’t help us answer, right? Like ‘what books would I enjoy?’, ‘what places should I see before I die?’ or ’should I get that nose ring I’ve been thinking about?’.

Wrong. Not only can we send those question out to the Twitterverse and get some pretty quick and honest responses, or even float ideas amoungst our other online networking groups, we can also ask Hunch.

Give the website some ideas about yourself, click on a query you’d like answered, maybe give the site a little more feedback, and it will give you its ‘hunch’ of things you’d enjoy, from young adult fiction novels to which mobile phone would best suit you (apparently between an iPhone and a Blackberry, I should buy an iPhone).

Are we giving the internet too much power? Maybe we should ask hunch.