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

I just searched for 'blow job'

[Astrorunner]

....and found ever picture *but* from my wedding.

Search for wedding photos, you pathetic nerds

[AtariAmarok]

The only wedding photos you're going to find are all those Pamela Lee downloads, and the "Chewie and Leia's Honeymoon" pix you made yourself using Photoshop.