Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 09:31 GMT
all the publicity in geekland about WolframAlpha would it?
Paris, because it's Springtime
Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 09:31 GMT
Anyone else think all they're doing is trawling Wikipedia, extracting complied data from there, and perhaps following a few links from Wiki references just to randomise the data origins a bit?
Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 09:31 GMT
I'm sure they'll figure out how to do it, someone very wise once suggested they do it with image searches, making better use of their 2 dimensional grid that simple left to right top to bottom reading order.
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Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 09:31 GMT
Google develops nice advanced search techniques then clutters up the matches with commercial sites, the biggest problem is filtering them all out.
Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 14:32 GMT
Google, please do this for me:
X row: Top 100 female porn stars by hits
Y row: Breast size
Field contents: Image
Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 15:44 GMT
Battelle, for whom I once worked, developed an application (http://in-spire.pnl.gov/index.stm) for representing search results as a dynamic 3-D landscape, with higher "elevations" indicating the most relevant hits. The user can zoom in on landscape features of interest for more details. I thought it was pretty cool when they announced it in 1996.
Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 18:28 GMT
> "I think we can open the kimono a little bit," Mayer volunteered. "I will say the technology behind it is totally amazing."
So, who's up for robot sex?
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