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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. 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.