ZDNet UK - Insight - Boldly Googling into the future: "When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ('Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?') and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice. I think this technology is about, oh, 300 years off. Just getting the computer to understand your question, much less the context it's being asked in, is way beyond the state of the art in computer science right now."....
"Microsoft has publicly voiced its intentions to move into search in a bigger way with the eventual release of Longhorn, which will attempt to unify local and Internet searches."...
posted by Jen @ 8:24 AM
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