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Microsoft's Search Engine Plans
prostoalex writes "Andy Beal from SearchEngineGuide.com interviews Robert Scoble from Microsoft. Scoble tells the audience what current search technologies Microsoft is working on as part of its Longhorn/WinFS development as well as in the field of Internet. Scoble also discusses current problems with local drive and Internet searching, such as absence of metadata for a lot of files out there: "When I take pictures off of my Nikon, they have some metadata (for instance, inside the file is the date it was taken, along with the exposure information) but that metadata isn't useful for most human searches. For instance, how about if I wanted to search for "my wedding photos?" Neither X1, nor Windows XP's built in search would find your wedding photos. Why? Because they have useless names like DSC0001.jpg and there's no metadata that says they are wedding photos.""
X1, nor Windows XP's built in search would find your wedding photos. Why? Because they have useless names like DSC0001.jpg and there's no metadata that says they are wedding photos.
Right, dude! The camera should automagically recognize that it's taking pictures of your wedding and include that info in the metadata!
Darth Ballmer: Commander tear this site apart until you've found those plans and bring me the users I want them alive!!
This whole longhorn winfs thing seems like a big technological advance to me ...
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Manualy adding metadata to each of your 200+ wedding pictures looks so smarter than just creating an old fashioned directory "wedding pics" and moving them into it
I can't wait to start using this wonderful FS
search for "best OS" find Microsoft
search for "viral software" find Linux
search for "secure" find Windows XP
search for "handsome smart guy" find Bill Gates
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I'm so stupid! I named all my folders like that too. folder0001, folder0002, ....
But how will you know who they belong to? The OS should force names like MyFolder0001, MyFolder0002, ...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I've actually heard of a guy putting all his data in a heirarchy of folders called "New folder something" because he didn't know how to rename them.
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
I think the guys at Microsoft are under the impression that it is easier for a user to add metadata to a file than change its filename and put it in a logical place.
I think they are wrong.
Even if they put more annoying pop-ups like "Hi, I'm Photi, your annoying photo-organiser! What are the names of the people on this photo?" I think people will go straight for the 'Ok' button. Especially if you take the number of pictures that can be stored on a memory card these days. Even clicking 'Ok' 50 times can be pretty annoying.
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
I'm watching Invader Zim, and he says "And NOW For my Evil plan" and /. finishes loading with this story is at the top of the page. Second when it loads, it's got a google ad in it.
(Score:0, Interesting)
> Also metadata needs to be created by the user, I aint gonna be entereing data on a keypad on my camera for every photo.
;-)
That's why the next version of Microsoft Photo[tm] will send every photo you make to the Microsoft headquarters so they can add the metadata for you.
If they claim that they can indentify bitmaps with kiddie porn, then it should be no problem doing it with wedding photos where there is usually a broad with a 19th century white gown on most of them.
exactly, whatever microsoft does they can't make the system figure out the proper metadata on their own and the user has already the possibility to enter it anyways.
like, have the wedding photos in a 'wedding' folder or whatever, porno in 'porno' folder and wedding porno in 'wedding night' folder.
sure they can make it a nice categorizing system but wtf, why steam so much about it, are they going to bring it "up on your face" so that it's hard to ignore typing the metadata(most people would ignore it anyways)? don't they have real features?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I'd like a camera that could accept voice metadata, turn it to text, and preserve it when it went onto the filesystem, using whatever metadata the filesystem supports.
That way I could easily hit the button on the camera, say "vacation with supermodel"[0], and search on that later. Although we'd need something more than ext{2,3} which could hold proper user-defined metadata.
Note 0: The simple metadata storage system would not have a lie detector. ;P
Ever tried to search for Xfree86 on search.msn.com?
Stefan
Funny, I get around not being able to find my wedding photos by putting them all in a directory called WEDDING PHOTOS - THE PHOTOS OF YOUR WEDDING ARE HERE YOU TWIT
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
Microsoft Search Engine Clippy - "I found 0 matches for 'Linux', maybe you meant to search for 'Microsoft Windows XP'?"
I can't afford a sig!
Ok, I just downloaded a shitload of pr0n...
Doze is gonna make me categorize it first before I get the tissues out???
snap out of it you fools.
PHB: I need you to make this so simple my mother could use it.
Alice: It's already so simple a squirel could use it. How much dumber is your mother?
-ted
A Google crawler indexed the net, while a Microsoft crawler will simply index Google.