Comments on: Future of search may not be about indexes and algorithms

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By: brisbourne

brisbourne — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:10:03 +0000

Good point Andrew – different types of algorithm will come to the fore

By: Andrew J Scott

Andrew J Scott — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:55:00 +0000

I agree; although actually what you need is better algorithms — if not for indexing then for natural language processing, for pattern matching in data, semantics and learning user behaviour.

Rummbles technology produces a trust network based on your tastes – as you say, people want answers FAST, especially on mobile – and the browsing concept behind good, of the user having to dig for information, breaks on mobile devices.

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By: brisbourne

brisbourne — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:01:29 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Your point re Wolfram is well made raises an interesting question: do we even need to be searching the web to find answers to many popular queries?

By: brisbourne

brisbourne — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:55:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Your point re Wolfram is well made raises an interesting question: do we even need to be searching the web to find answers to many popular queries?

By: brisbourne

brisbourne — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:38:44 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Your point re Wolfram is well made raises an interesting question: do we even need to be searching the web to find answers to many popular queries?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:20 +0000

I agree with Simoncast. Though originally Google was brilliant, they continue building more on their original foundation rather than improving the foundation noticeably or as drastically as Yahoo is. I expect this will be their downfall when they fall (though for now I still am very much a Google fan).

I'd just like to chime in about Wolfram, though, since there's so much hype around it and much of it is untrue. The biggest mistake is people calling it a search engine. It does not search the web for its data.

Says CNN, “Well first of all its not a search engine, it’s a computational knowledge engine. Roughly translated, that means that this site, Wolfram Alpha figures out results for you based on its own databases, not by scanning the web. In some cases the data’s pretty extensive. Mathematical information, there’s physics searches you can do, historical data.” (as quoted at newsy.com)

But I think your fundamental argument, that web search may be completely changing and possibly fragmenting, is insightful.

By: simoncast

simoncast — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:13:37 +0000

I do see Google dropping the ball increasingly and being unable to break free of their previous mindset to explore new ways of doing things is a significant cause of this.

I can even see a case where search as we know it fades away.