July 17, 2008

Is this the Future of Search? Adding rating, tagging, comments i.e. social tools * via Techcrunch

This is a video you must watch, about potential new search options within Google, below. Here is the link to Techrunch. Very interesting stuff indeed. Add 'play song' or 'watch movie' to the mix and then... well, we all knew that already: Search IS Media. Right.

Picture_45 Update: the Wikia guys just emailed me with this link "Google Tries to Copy Wikia Search" Wikia search is here

Jul 17, 2008 2:09:10 PM | Search

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Very cool video from Google.

About that Wikia note, though: i followed the link and tried Wikia; it sucks. Slow, awkward interface, and the actual search results were not very good (the about.com result was for the home page, and my search term was not on it). Granted, i only tried one search, but it was pretty weak that one time. Let's hope Google can do better than "copy" wikia.

Posted by: tpeek | July 22, 2008 at 03:38 AM

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