Does Marissa Mayer’s “Perfect Search Engine” Already Exist In Siri?

Nov 10, 2009 at 6:36pm ET by Greg Sterling

Recently IDG News Service asked Google's Marissa Mayer about the "perfect search engine." Here was the question posed: "What is the perfect search engine? If you had a magic wand and could create it, what would it look like? What would it do?" Mayer replied: "It would be a machine that could answer that question, really. It would be one that could understand speech, questions, phrases, what entities you're talking about, concepts. It would be able to search all of the world's information, [find] different ideas and concepts, and bring them back to you in a presentation that was really infor [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Features: Commands, Search Features: Natural Language

Battle Of The Augmented Reality Apps: Urbanspoon, Layar, Wikitude, WhereMark & More

Oct 15, 2009 at 9:57am ET by Greg Sterling

There seems to be an explosion of "real-time" search engines on the PC. The space is very new, still fairly open and in my opinion the tools and sites are not yet all that useful. Almost exactly the same can be said of "augmented reality" (AR) in mobile. From almost nothing about six months ago, there's now an explosion of AR apps for Android and the iPhone. They're cool, they're novel but most of them are not that useful as a practical matter. As I wrote previously, AR is a form of search. However the best AR apps incorporate more conventional methods of searching and discovery that don [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Top News

Shopping Site TheFind Relaunches As “Buying Engine”

Oct 14, 2009 at 9:11am ET by Greg Sterling

If Bing can brand itself "decision engine" as a strategy to differentiate  from the leading "search engine" so can shopping comparison site TheFind. The latter is now calling itself a "buying engine" as a way to emerge from the anonymous sea of shopping search sites out there. This morning a redesigned TheFind went live with a range of new features, including enhanced product search, coupon aggregation for 50 million products, review search, local inventory and beefed up information about online stores. Beyond a somewhat new look and feel, review search and coupon aggregation are the truly [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines

Aardvark Launches iPhone App For Answers “On The Go”

Sep 15, 2009 at 12:22pm ET by Greg Sterling

Aardvark, which can be described variously as a "social search engine, “help engine” or “answer community," has launched an iPhone app. It was many months in the making according to co-founder Max Ventilla. And with it, Aardvark arrives on what may be its breakthrough platform, helping to introduce the service to the mainstream -- or at least iPhone users. The site offers many entry points where users can ask questions: Vark.com, Facebook, Twitter, IM. However, the bulk of questions come in via IM currently. In addition, you can choose to receive responses via email. Until now Aardv [...]

Filed in: Google: Mobile, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

Flickr Now Has An iPhone App

Sep 8, 2009 at 9:41am ET by Barry Schwartz

This morning, TechCrunch reported that Flickr's iPhone app has finally made it to the iTunes Store. It is free and can be downloaded by clicking here. I gave the app a quick go, and I really think it was done exceptionally well. Here is a walk through, screen by screen. The app icon is plain and simple: When you load up the app and past the start screen, images are displayed on the front page. But the images has slow motion to them, as they pane in and out between other images. If you are logged in, you get images from your friends as well. Here is a screen cap of that page: [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr

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