Friday, August 7, 2009

Imagine 2020



Why can’t a search engine be developed which offers a much more holistic service to net users than what Google, Yahoo or Bing currently offer. As of now, we type in search terms, sentences or phrases into the search bar and get a few hundred thousand results in less than a second. Great. But why not go a few notches higher? Why
just stick to typing search terms and getting innumerable articles? Here is the plan for “Imagine 2020.

All of us have those times when we just can’t place someone. We know we’ve seen them around, met them a few times but just can’t pinpoint who they are. Definitely embarrassing. Its even more embarrassing when the other person is a well known personality and you don’t recognize them. On
Imagine 2020 you will be able to upload a photo of a person on the search bar and instantly know who they are and what they do or have done. Imagine will start with a database of famous persons, move on to semi-famous persons and slowly but surely have a world wide database. And not just people, it could be the image of any kind of animal r creature or object, and you could get split-second details about it.

On the same lines why can’t we upload a sound clip and get a gazillion results in a microsecond? For example, if there is a bird chirping around me, I should be able to record its chirping with my phone and upload it to
Imagine and know exactly which bird species it is, what are the specifics of the sound it makes (wavelength, pitch etc.), whether the bird is a male or a female, the age of the bird and whatever more details you want. Imagine will be on top of this service.

This is definitely the future of search engines. To make us more aware of the universe we live in. To make our lives even easier and faster. To make the world an even smaller and more connected place. Just
IMAGINE...

3 comments:

  1. saks, love ur idea!
    research into face recognition softwares and the software that makes shazam work, u will get clues into the search systems that you are talking about..
    its a moneymaking venture so remove this post of ur blog soon!!

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  2. lol... will definitely talk to you regarding the same. even i thought of shazam myself. i think shazam uses youtube as its data to recognize songs. and thanks for the advice :)

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