It has started several new subsidiaries in the past two years, specialising in information technology, predictive (or diagnostic) medicine and biotherapeutics.
Reports are created to visualize the information and manually identify relationships within the data that hopefully provide insight and predictive capabilities.
Then farmers can correlate that information with the weather, their fertilizing patterns, seed varieties and they can come up with some predictive analytics on how to improve crop yields.
There are other predictive assistant apps such as Grokr and Osito that you can give access to your e-mail and calendar information, but for many, Google products are already integrated into every part of their lives.