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Blinkx and You Won't Miss It

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the silly-story-titles dept.

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?"

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  1. Could this be Google's first technology threat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No.

    Maybe we should update the old UseNet cliche :

    Imminent Death of Google Predicted : Film at 11

  2. Re:Not a threat if... by congaflum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You gotta love the use of the term "optimized for", when waht they actually mean is "requires" :-)

  3. Find a needle in a Haystack by Croaker-bg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This harkens back to the good ole Haystack doo-ma-jiggy that came out of MIT sometime ago (slashdot Here and MIT HERE)

    The concept is a simple one. Don't keep things in order in your folders in email or on your machine anymore. Just dump it all in one big place and have a meta engine of some sort index it all for you and then build queries for what you need. Realistically this is a great idea for those folks that had problems using the analog file cabinet for so many years (ala Jimmy James and the file of banana under "bright curved yellow things" for instance). The potential for abuse is really no greater than if M$ were to upload all of your "explorer find" searches back to Redmond. Those of you that us XP when you have to will notice that there is even an option to save a search query now for quick use within the XP shell. All this new company has done is just made it a little easier for the typical end user to create their search meta engine. The MIT one was brutal for a learning curve and more importantly it didnt have a decent place to put advertisements!