Friday, October 15, 2004
Google launches desktop search for Windows PCs
The Register's article, and the BBC one, show that search approaches are expanding in both technology and domain, and show no signs of slowing down. It's an interesting area, with the most critical problems remaining predominantely unsolved (finding what you mean not what you type etc.).
But I have to wonder whether the focus on search is also missing the point - people access information in many different ways, and we seem to be producing improved technologies to support only one. I guess you could argue that newer browsers are enhancing browsing, but it seems to me that they are only tinkering with the issues - interaction may be slightly enhanced but accessing quality information through them remains pretty much as it was.
The Register's article, and the BBC one, show that search approaches are expanding in both technology and domain, and show no signs of slowing down. It's an interesting area, with the most critical problems remaining predominantely unsolved (finding what you mean not what you type etc.).
But I have to wonder whether the focus on search is also missing the point - people access information in many different ways, and we seem to be producing improved technologies to support only one. I guess you could argue that newer browsers are enhancing browsing, but it seems to me that they are only tinkering with the issues - interaction may be slightly enhanced but accessing quality information through them remains pretty much as it was.
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