Comments on: The Future of Search According to Google

By: palgrave

palgrave — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:34:08 +0000

Google are going to build HAL and give one to each of us? Cool.

Let’s hope it arrives before manned spaceflight to Jupiter becomes commonplace.

By: Czaries

Czaries — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:05:37 +0000

Privacy advocates have been fighting learning patterns like this for years. I doubt very seriously they will be stagnant either when some big scary corporation says they want to collect information on how you use the computer to then use it to help you. So I think in this case, privacy advocates and groups are going to be their largest obstacle to making this dream a reality.

By: asif451

asif451 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:24:46 +0000

If it does as stated in this article then this will brig a revolution in web programming

By: JustThinking

JustThinking — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:04:07 +0000

We really have 2 problems
-> what people mean
-> want (scope / context)
I.e. the question “Which school has a team called the Banana Slugs?” requires a couple of other questions
-> What do you define as a school team
-> In which country /state / town
-> Do you actual want more information than just the school name

In a sense the personalised search engine in Google is a step closer because to answer these bigger questions Google needs to know more about you but that raises privacy questions. Or do we have 2 search engines one to give general results and a personal one based on our computer which we control and refines those results. And with the explosion of data around us bring on the number crunchers!

By: writesite7

writesite7 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:52:47 +0000

Wow…this looks to be a very interesting idea and I’m sure that any high school kid looking up information on the 1500’s would agree. On the other hand, we all sometimes have problems finding the right answer to our unique questions, but is it really that hard? I can usually find an answer to a certain everyday question in under 2 minutes. Unusual questions will maybe take 10 minutes to find the answer that I’m most satisfied with. Are their really enough computer boggling questions to spend money on a voice recognition system? Or could you just type in the question like you always have?
Well, I guess I’ll see how the road curves in later years.