The reaction of many people to real time search is: what is new in this. Google already does it very fast so why can it not make its search faster? Another common reaction, particularly from my academic researcher friends —…
Real Time Search 4: Driving using only the rear view mirror
Real Time Search 3: Twitter
The latest Time has Twitter on Cover and a very nice article by Steven Johnson. I did not think that Twitter has any potential when I first heard about it – so following really resonated well with me: The one…
Real Time Search 2
The biggest challenge in real time search is how do you minimize latency — the time lag — between creation of some data/event and it getting indexed and delivered to interested receivers. In traditional search, crawlers will periodically visit every…
Personal Butler on iPhone: Siri
There is a new assistant announced for iPhone. According to this article Siri deals with the hassle of accessing multiple sites to explore options, make choices, get reservations and buy tickets. It saves your favorites, keeps track of your bookings,…
Prospective of Multimedia Search
Last week I gave a talk at CHORUS Conference in Brussels, Belgium on my vies of current search and the future of search, particularly of multimedia search. In fact all future search will be multimedia search so ther term ‘multimedia’…