Google Killer? - Page 10

I don't think they're idiots. They just need an HCI that search engines can't support yet. This kind of highly contextual search is going to be a huge area of innovation in search over the coming months and years. Check this out for an early example.

So today, you've got this kind of contextual search based on the country you're in. You've already got it based on information in the same browsing session (for example do a Google Maps query for SFO, and then a query immediately following that for Pizza to see what I mean).

As far as WolframAlpha goes, I don't think it's going to go anywhere. It couldn't handle most queries I threw at it the other day (e.g. a vanity search, search for "May 28", some local info, searching for a formula). Some things it did really well (like a query for Microsoft's stock ticker MSFT), but that doesn't feel scalable to me. They basically have to hand-build every query type like they did for stock tickers for this to work. And there's no way they can possibly anticipate all the types of queries people will want to create results as compelling as their stock tickers for everything.

It seems like a by nerds, for nerds type toy to me rather than a real application I might consider using over Google.

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

May 20 2009 07:59 GMT

#184

WOW where has this site been all my life? THis is amazing for calculus