jyonkov
Neven Boyanov
Bertrand
Daniel Radev
Stefan Stefanov
Apostol Apostolov
ihayes2000
Jean
New Search Engine
I have a question !
I would like to know the actual possibilitys of making a “smart” search engine that could give you answers of your questions.
For example, let say that i want to know the birth date of Napoleon, i’m going first on google and type Napoleon brithdate, i find few links and by habit, i click on Wikipedia. There, i look in first lines to find what i’m looking for.
Is there a way of finding directly this information by asking a simple question like this? I mean noone care about looking stuff in search engine or encyclopedia but the answers.
Even better, what if i speak directly in mic asking my questions and get replyed by voice. Avoiding typing and mousing gesture for earn time. Imagine a children playing with such application for years! Or this could in reverse made the learning process almost unusefull for most people.
Until where could we go about question complexity?
John told me few years ago about ontologie and this really blow my mind but what now? Is there something like Wikipedia but ontologie oriented more open than a “simple” dictionary?
jyonkov, 
Jean, 
Daniel Radev 3:56 am on January 25, 2010 Permalink |
Currently WolframAlfa (http://www.wolframalpha.com ) is the best answer as far as I know.
It would give you answers to questions like Napoleon birthdate and it has some other nice features (type AAPL vs GOOG for example)…
Neven Boyanov 8:21 pm on January 26, 2010 Permalink |
That is very interesting. I looked for various (and few very stupid) things but what surprised me was that: “Jesus Christ date of birth” – result ~ 4 BC, looks inaccurate. But it’s still better that nothing, i.e. as if the guy never existed.
jyonkov 7:25 am on January 25, 2010 Permalink |
I agree with Daniel that WolframAlfa fits your description the best. Here are some other interesting once.
http://www.clusty.com/ – categorizes/clusters searches.
http://labs.hakia.com/hakia-lab.html – they are based in Turkey i think..
http://www.powerset.com/ – from MS
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&esrch=FT1&tbo=1&tbs=ww:1&q=ontology&btnG=Search -Wonder Wheel
I can’t skip WordNet http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Bertrand 8:33 am on January 25, 2010 Permalink |
Ok guys, thanks for the tips. I’ll play around with.
Jean 4:55 pm on February 2, 2010 Permalink |
Aardvark (vark.com) seems something to check out too.
The intelligence of the engine consist of routing your questions to experts in your social network.
More human interaction, better?
jyonkov 2:18 pm on February 13, 2010 Permalink |
Thanks Jean, I signed up and i like it ! Even Answered a question trough GTalk
I’ve been thinking about “universal” instant messenger with some good plugin framework that can make easy writing applications that utilize the FOAF contacts network since PMF days (PMF was a framework we wrote in Qt while working together…) but never got around to it. It would be cool if one can hack a network app with GUI in a week and publish to the world or some subset without effort… Ahh wait that sounds like Apple App Store?! … well not exactly.