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.""

Comments

Re:Hmmmm...

[tomstdenis]

you *can* do this to some limited sense with the command shell

for %a in (DSC*.JPG) do rename %a Wedding_%a

You just have to know a bit about the command shell...

Tom

Re:I have a suggestion for em..

[nolife]

Google can already do a good job of finding wedding photos.. They may not be yours but they are wedding photos ;)

Find images like this

[unoengborg]

In KDE you can allready select an image file and say select "Find similar images". provided you have indexed your images using GIFT (Gnu Image Finding Tool)

You can search images both in your own GIFT database and databases on the internet.

So to solve the wedding photo problem you could make a drawing similar to your photos and search for similar images.