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Better Search Engines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finding-nemo dept.

prostoalex writes "Scientific American is seeking better Web searches. They report on all sorts of innovations happening outside the Google-Yahoo-MSN zone that the press is usually reporting on, including GPS-enhanced searches from University of Maryland, Shape Retrieval and Analysis from Princeton, musical search engine from New Zealand Digital Library Project, and some of the projects that A9 and Ask.com have been working on."

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  1. Music Search by fembots · · Score: 5, Funny

    a user can record a query by playing notes on the system's virtual keyboard. Or he or she can hum the song into a computer microphone.

    I tried that, but I was so out-of-tune the search engine returned all songs from Britney Spears.

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    1. Re:Music Search by k4_pacific · · Score: 4, Funny

      I tried it too, but all the results were blocked for DMCA violations.

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  2. Ask.com! by joshsnow · · Score: 2, Funny

    and some of the projects that A9 and Ask.com have been working on

    I want a search engine with a Genie-Jeeves. Imagine: I snap my fingers, smoke streams from my monitor, materialising into Jeeves, complete with tray, glass and a bottle of that beer I couldn't quite bring to mind when I clicked the search button...

  3. It's not cuz you were out of tune by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's because all pop music sounds exactly the same these days. From the perspective of a search engine, it *IS* all just songs from Britney Spears.

  4. Yeah, but when will... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    www.findmysocks.com by up and running?

  5. All together now... by Tackhead · · Score: 1, Funny
    > GPS-enhanced searches from University of Maryland, Shape Retrieval and Analysis from Princeton, musical search engine from New Zealand Digital Library Project, and some of the projects that A9 and Ask.com

    Jeeves, what sort of music would you recommend to my friends if I told you I was listening to a sculptor singing the plaintext of the curvy-shaped thingy that talks about 38 57' 6.5" N 77 8' 44" W to the tune of The Hymn of the Soviet Union?

  6. Shape Retrieval and Analysis? Hmmmm... by R2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does that mean I will be able to search for porn with 38DD's?

    Did I say that out loud?

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