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Is Google's Future: Star Trek?
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet UK has an interview with Google's CTO, Craig Silverstein, and he's got some pretty cool visions: "When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice." Now that's the search engine I want." The NLP required for this is far off, but it sure will be cool when we get there.
Go ahead and flame away. I know about putting stuff in quotes but a lot of people do NOT know that and have a hard time.
Like this,
how to replace a washer in a leaky faucet
google comes back with this shit,
The following words are very common and were not included in your search: how to a in a.
So, you get deludged with senseless bullshit that is not even close to what you want.
You end up wading through hundreds of BS websites, the majority of them being a-holes trying to sell you books on DIY plumbing. Finding a website that actually shows you how do do what you are looking for is damn hard to find, even if you know how to play the google game.
Until they quit making assumptions on what you are trying to say/look for, Searching for things on the internet will always suck.
Where, oh where are the /. grammar nazis this time. C'mon, we've got an extra colon in the HEADING for crying out loud!!!
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
I don't understand all the Big Hype concerning Google.
It's like they cured cancer. They did nothing truly innovative.
page rank is self explanatory.
Big whoody fucking doo.