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Google Mobile Search Shows Recipe Suggestions When You Look For Food (engadget.com)
In the past few years, Google has used its so-called "knowledge graph" to make search results far more useful than just a list of links -- you can get lots of info on a variety of topics right in Google without having to click on any search results. The latest addition to Google search is something foodies should take note of. Now, when you search for food on mobile, you'll see a carousel of recipes at the top of the results page. From a report on Engadget: Google also added some filters to those recipe results -- right below the search bar are additional suggestions you can use to refine your results. Searching for "fried chicken" gave me the option to add "oven-fried," "buttermilk," and "southern fried" filters to narrow down the recipes. You can also tap "view all" to move out of the standard search page and see bigger, more detailed recipe cards that show a picture and quick preview of the recipe.
Why would the dorks here care about recipes? Most of them are too busy living in their parents' basements, watching Star Track all day. Speaking of which, why do you dorks like fantasy shows like Star Track so much? There's a real world outside of your basements, but it doesn't involve warp hyper drives, phaser torpedoes, and the other ridiculous gadgets from Star Track. Get a life!
I texted someone "have you eaten yet?" and Android popped up a prompt for a search to find out what restaurants were nearby.
Or at the least once was.
Back when Fidonet was as close to the Internet as one could get (affordably). It was evident that one of the most popular subject within the Usenet were the trading of recipes. Something I never expected, the popularity and the amounts (recipes) available in that area were just vast.
I never followed the subject further than that spending my time in other areas; but still curious that while Usenet sex/files/hacks/banter went hand in hand, never once heard of areas trading recipes other than being just another newsgroup. It was something one (I) stumbled across, as if many participated yet dare not talked about it.
I hope not literally mobile.
The last thing we need when driving is to have Google pop up a bunch of recipes. Restaurants, yes, cooking info, not very likely.
Save the recipe suggestions for when the mobile isn't mobile. In fact, pretty much anywhere that isn't home. Unless explicitly asked for, anyway.
The future is NOW.
There's not much gets past these guys, is there?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I tested it on Firefox for Android and didn't get recipes. Is it restricted to certain browsers, countries, OSes?
I typed Nougat and the first hit was for a green robot!
Problem: how do search engines respond to an inquiry? They reply based oft on algorythms built from other popular search--which over times feedback on itself giving you more focused but limited variety of results.
Example: recently been cooking more at home, so I've been trying to search "bake time chicken quarter 350 degrees." The replies I get skip over the simple baking/temperature guides and instead give you fancy recipes with 6 ingredients...I assume you get my point. BTW, I broke down and got a $10 meat thermometer (I had been holding out for the one recommended by Cook's County that recently went up in price, again, toward $100) and now look up "safe cook temp" for whatever body part or whatever creature I'm cooking.
But, this is an issue not limited to cooking. Have you ever noticed how current events and news truncate down to a very few limited factoids, and often the same text echo-chamber. Look up Carrie Fischer this week; 90% of the first 100 hits will be the same.
If you'll excuse me I'm going back to watching funny cat videos on meow-tube.