Search engines started with an idea to provide all pages in response to their queries. The basic idea is very simple – process all pages to find particular words and organize the index to provide links to all documents containing…
Convergence in Search and databases
Human and Search
We all know that Search is for humans. All search engines are designed to help humans. Lately search engines have started emphasizing that purly machine based search can only take the effectiveness of search (for humans) so far. This is…
SenseWeb
Rajesh (from emergic.org) pointed out an interesting article that is related to the one that I mentioned in my last post. This article describes a project by Dr. Nath of Microsoft to assimilate all sensory information and present it live:…
Real Time Maps
A project at MIT takes data from laptops and mobile phones to create real time maps of human activities in cities or spaces. These maps can be very useful in many applications. These maps also create challenging issues for those…
Future of News
Dave Pettit has a an interesting story about the future of News — how News should be in 2016. I feel that an important point is missing about News in most discussions. News as it exists in Newspapers, radio, and…