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After your websites, Google wants to index your DNA too. Google's investment in Navigenics suggests so. Navigenics, Inc., a company based in Redwood Shores, California offers personalized genetics-based consumer health and wellness services by providing clinically based knowledge to help it's clients take positive steps to live healthily.

Your DNA falls into the realm of "the world's information," and it seems that Google (GOOG), as part of its corporate mission, is making a play to organize that, too. The Internet giant received heavy press in 2007 when it invested at least $4.4 million (BusinessWeek.com, 11/29/07) in a genetic screening company, 23andMe, that was started by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and her business partner.

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