Comments on: Search in the Future http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: romualdo http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2640 romualdo Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:50:30 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2640 Yahoo has succeded in search services and is on the right way to modernize them. I find Yahoo Directory very useful but such biased user services as Yahoo Answers can't be trustworthy (it's more of a fun). Of course, command-line search belongs to the past but it'll always be a starting-point of any specific query. The mainstream trend is search intuitivization. A pioneer here is Quintura with its context tagcloud. What it lacks for perfection is a knowledge base. I see search in the future as a categorised tagcloud. Using visual search is convenient and my friends liked this approach too. Yahoo has succeded in search services and is on the right way to modernize them. I find Yahoo Directory very useful but such biased user services as Yahoo Answers can’t be trustworthy (it’s more of a fun). Of course, command-line search belongs to the past but it’ll always be a starting-point of any specific query. The mainstream trend is search intuitivization. A pioneer here is Quintura with its context tagcloud. What it lacks for perfection is a knowledge base. I see search in the future as a categorised tagcloud. Using visual search is convenient and my friends liked this approach too.

]]> By: Dr. Ingrid Perscky http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2639 Dr. Ingrid Perscky Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:08:16 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2639 To the Management team of Yahoo: This is my first time in your blog. When expanding Yahoo's options for search, social and a more personalized one, think you are all missing a point: There's an overall 80% of the world population who can't access Internet in regular basis, and english is still the only language if you really want to find a wide range of information and images. Internet, the greatest invention ever, saddly added another division in the world, the DIGITAL DIVIDE, those with and withouht access to Internet, and this are not only words but a huge and evergrowing reality. But don't even think for a minute that giving laptops to kids or PC to the poor your will ever solve the problem. Internet is like the world, lots of good things if you know where to find them, and a whole lot more of bad things that will find you, even if you don't want to. What's the solution then? How do we help people to "yahoofind" the good things in an expedite and secure way? How do we get that 80% of human beings around the world to access this incredible digital world? Thinking of that and amazed with Internet since its beginnings I developed and patented in USPTO what it is going to be the first public intranetwork of terminals in the world. Interactive terminals and telecom centers, an E-commerce and search Portal to be access from public places, PC and portable devices, the Amigo Network, that its about to be started in Panama, Rep. of Panama, and after 8 long years of hard work, might be a reality soon. All "New Yahoo Products" that your are announcing like the social search, have been in my patent for years and are part of our BP. We are buiding our own search machine, but I must recognize that having Yahoo or Google on our side, has allways been our dream. Well if you can get this message to Terry Semel, Jerry Yang or David Filo, or anyone else that might be interested in hear about our project. To the Management team of Yahoo:
This is my first time in your blog. When expanding Yahoo’s options for search, social and a more personalized one, think you are all missing a point: There’s an overall 80% of the world population who can’t access Internet in regular basis, and english is still the only language if you really want to find a wide range of information and images. Internet, the greatest invention ever, saddly added another division in the world, the DIGITAL DIVIDE, those with and withouht access to Internet, and this are not only words but a huge and evergrowing reality.
But don’t even think for a minute that giving laptops to kids or PC to the poor your will ever solve the problem.
Internet is like the world, lots of good things if you know where to find them, and a whole lot more of bad things that will find you, even if you don’t want to.
What’s the solution then? How do we help people to “yahoofind” the good things in an expedite and secure way? How do we get that 80% of human beings around the world to access this incredible digital world?
Thinking of that and amazed with Internet since its beginnings I developed and patented in USPTO what it is going to be the first public intranetwork of terminals in the world. Interactive terminals and telecom centers, an E-commerce and search Portal to be access from public places, PC and portable devices, the Amigo Network, that its about to be started in Panama, Rep. of Panama, and after 8 long years of hard work, might be a reality soon.
All “New Yahoo Products” that your are announcing like the social search, have been in my patent for years and are part of our BP.
We are buiding our own search machine, but I must recognize that having Yahoo or Google on our side, has allways been our dream.
Well if you can get this message to Terry Semel, Jerry Yang or David Filo, or anyone else that might be interested in hear about our project.

]]> By: Blog http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2638 Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:57:13 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2638 The Directory is a $299.00 joke, waste of money, the good news it will only be listed for one year. For the unlucky ones who were listed for free it is even worse, you can't change your listing, you can't contact any one to remove your listing. We do not want to be listed with Yahoo Directory, the title affects all of our natural listings titles, the Directory has been nothing but a curse. Please Yahoo stop visiting our web site and keep your email, we should start charging your bot a penny per visit. The Directory is a $299.00 joke, waste of money, the good news it will only be listed for one year.

For the unlucky ones who were listed for free it is even worse, you can’t change your listing, you can’t contact any one to remove your listing. We do not want to be listed with Yahoo Directory, the title affects all of our natural listings titles, the Directory has been nothing but a curse.

Please Yahoo stop visiting our web site and keep your email, we should start charging your bot a penny per visit.

]]> By: Chris http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2637 Chris Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:56:39 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2637 What will the future of the Directory in relation to where Yahoo search is going? Is the Directory even maintained anymore? I've tried fruitlessley to change my sites directory listing for over a year as it refers to what my site was 8 years ago. Not even people I speak to in Yahoo know how to change it or where to turn to. I think the Directory could still be a useful part of the future of Yahoo search as it's supposedly human maintained - but is it? What will the future of the Directory in relation to where Yahoo search is going? Is the Directory even maintained anymore? I’ve tried fruitlessley to change my sites directory listing for over a year as it refers to what my site was 8 years ago. Not even people I speak to in Yahoo know how to change it or where to turn to. I think the Directory could still be a useful part of the future of Yahoo search as it’s supposedly human maintained – but is it?

]]> By: Terry http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2636 Terry Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:51:51 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2636 I think thinking about search is useless and instead we should be focused on how people's lives and tasks can be facilitated with information and how we can obtain that information. Then "search" will naturally follow from that. For example think of online maps. I would imagine that before online maps were invented, they were seen as inferior to physical maps, because the computer's screen was small and a PC was not portable. But then someone saw the value of online maps in that they were immediately accessible from any computer and when you least expect to need a map. Like, a friend calls you up at work and wants to meet you, but at a foreign location. In this scenario, there was a need for information and Yahoo maps collected and provided that information as well as a way to organize it; namely "search". That was the fusion part of information. Then there's the delivery part, where instantaneity is important. Yahoo Instant Search is a good example, but even it is too slow and not accurate enough. Yahoo Shortcuts is good, but it could do with expanded coverage and it could provide a little more information on the search results page. For example, I search for "Pi" and Yahoo Shortcut says, " Pi - in mathematics, the ratio of the circumference of... [more]". It would help if it finished the sentence. It could also perhaps a keyboard shortcut to activate it. One area which I think Yahoo should work on is in integrating their office tools; namely email and calendar. You shouldn't underestimate these tools and how much they ought to be integrated together. Case in point, rather than using the tasks/todo feature in calendar to record tasks, people send emails to themselves reminding them of tasks to do. Also, most business emails contain a lot of scheduling tasks yet users have to copy and paste them from email to calendar each time. Wouldn't it be great if a single email or a conversation of emails could be linked directly to an event on the calendar and vice versa. So for example, on my calendar I could have an event for "board meeting" and then I could have links to the various emails that I've sent to the board members. And the great thing about this is that it would inevitably involve "search". As more information becomes integrated and therefore more useful and valuable as well as bloated, I need search to sift through all that information. I think thinking about search is useless and instead we should be focused on how people’s lives and tasks can be facilitated with information and how we can obtain that information. Then “search” will naturally follow from that.

For example think of online maps. I would imagine that before online maps were invented, they were seen as inferior to physical maps, because the computer’s screen was small and a PC was not portable. But then someone saw the value of online maps in that they were immediately accessible from any computer and when you least expect to need a map. Like, a friend calls you up at work and wants to meet you, but at a foreign location. In this scenario, there was a need for information and Yahoo maps collected and provided that information as well as a way to organize it; namely “search”.

That was the fusion part of information. Then there’s the delivery part, where instantaneity is important. Yahoo Instant Search is a good example, but even it is too slow and not accurate enough. Yahoo Shortcuts is good, but it could do with expanded coverage and it could provide a little more information on the search results page. For example, I search for “Pi” and Yahoo Shortcut says, ” Pi – in mathematics, the ratio of the circumference of… [more]“. It would help if it finished the sentence. It could also perhaps a keyboard shortcut to activate it.

One area which I think Yahoo should work on is in integrating their office tools; namely email and calendar. You shouldn’t underestimate these tools and how much they ought to be integrated together. Case in point, rather than using the tasks/todo feature in calendar to record tasks, people send emails to themselves reminding them of tasks to do. Also, most business emails contain a lot of scheduling tasks yet users have to copy and paste them from email to calendar each time. Wouldn’t it be great if a single email or a conversation of emails could be linked directly to an event on the calendar and vice versa. So for example, on my calendar I could have an event for “board meeting” and then I could have links to the various emails that I’ve sent to the board members. And the great thing about this is that it would inevitably involve “search”. As more information becomes integrated and therefore more useful and valuable as well as bloated, I need search to sift through all that information.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2635 Daniel Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:44:37 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2635 I see results relevance and search spam, blogs are notorious for this, as the next major hurdle for search engines. Ofcourse, as mentioned above, concept search may solve the above, or at least should, however it probably will be some time before that happens. I see results relevance and search spam, blogs are notorious for this, as the next major hurdle for search engines.

Ofcourse, as mentioned above, concept search may solve the above, or at least should, however it probably will be some time before that happens.

]]> By: Joe Beaulaurier http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2634 Joe Beaulaurier Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:13:02 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2634 Thanks for the link and kind words! I actually expected to get flamed more than validated. Who'da tho't? Joe B Thanks for the link and kind words! I actually expected to get flamed more than validated.

Who’da tho’t?

Joe B

]]> By: Jim Leavell http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2633 Jim Leavell Sat, 04 Feb 2006 20:30:57 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2633 Neil, Please furnish specifics. Jeremy and I both get exasperated when people make general comments like that. Thanks. Neil,

Please furnish specifics. Jeremy and I both get exasperated when people make general comments like that. Thanks.

]]> By: Jeremy Zawodny http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2632 Jeremy Zawodny Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:10:52 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2632 Err, I'll fix that. Sorry. Err, I’ll fix that. Sorry.

]]> By: An http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2631 An Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:01:17 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/02/01/search-in-the-future/#comment-2631 Guys do something about your blog's coments policy. I am getting an errow while trying to post a link to your own bloh ---- Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: ysearch*log.com Please correct the error in the form below, then press Post to post your comment. ---- Here is an example of yahoo answering through actions not words. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bvs8p" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/bvs8p</a> Guys do something about your blog’s coments policy.

I am getting an errow while trying to post a link to your own bloh

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Here is an example of yahoo answering through actions not words. http://tinyurl.com/bvs8p

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