Blinkx and You Won't Miss It

WebfishUK writes "The Guardian is running this story about Blinkx a a kind of "search companion" which aims to bring internet searches in closer contact to what you are working on. Its total search approach (including email attachments, blogs and local files) seems to have some parallels to Googles Gmail engine. Could this be the first real technology threat for Google?"

Comments

Could this be Google's first technology threat?

[Anonymous Coward]

No.

Maybe we should update the old UseNet cliche :

Imminent Death of Google Predicted : Film at 11

Woohoo!!

[scoot241]

An even quicker way to find porn, music, and movies. If this searches IRC channels too, we'll be set for life!

Dashboard clone?

[Peter Winnberg]

Isn't this just a clone of Dashboard?

Uh...

[xenostar]

For some reason the words "search companion" always make me cringe.

A REAL Search Engine

[tgrigsby]

So search engines have gone from searching a dedicated database to searching the text on the internet. Then it was searching images on the 'net. Now they can extend that to searching your email and local drives, all with one interface.

Cool.

But if you really want to impress me, make one that can search my house, my pockets, and my kids' rooms for my keys and wallet....

Re:A REAL Search Engine

[Anonymous Writer]

But if you really want to impress me, make one that can search my house, my pockets, and my kids' rooms for my keys and wallet

They have those already. They're called burglars... oh, you meant you wanted something to search for your keys and wallet and return them to you.

Re:Could this be Google's first technology threat?

[Anonymous Coward]

Usenet? That posse of Luddite introverts stopped being relevant five years ago.

A new Slashdot category

[LS]

Hmm, now that Slashdot is accepting submissions for spyware, I think they should create a new category. They didn't accept my submission for Bonzi Buddy!!!

LS