WSJ has a very nice piece on search by Gordon Crovitz. I particularly liked: It’s hard to imagine a more useful area for innovation in the world of information than improving search. That’s the first place we look for information…

I have seen a few people use the term ‘reverse search’ for searches performed by engines like shazam.com. I find it very awkward term. Maybe it is just me. I feel that people are so much used to living in…

Twitter has made Real Time Search a new field. First it was associated with what people called ‘ambient awareness’ and now this microblogging site has been called a real time search engine. Of course, the popularity of microblogging started with…

A new concept of Scent Opera is going to be introduce soon. See WSJ report. a “scent opera,” a new performance art that pairs music with a carefully orchestrated sequence of smells, some pleasant and some real stinkers. The opera,…

For the last several years people have been talking about ‘visual computing’ as a discipline within computer science. The idea has been to bring together elements of image processing, computer vision, graphics, 3-d processing, multimedia search and all such disciplines…