Google's Universal Search
A little over a year ago, I wrote a blog entry about Google's OneBox feature -- and it's potential to impact other vertical search engines. Danny Sullivan's SearchEngineLand blog has a detailed post that shows how Google has shifted from OneBox towards Universal Search. If you're interested in search or content discovery, Danny's post is well worth the read...
Are you aware of anyone getting closer to a true search - reading and understanding the text like a person would?
I am working with a company, www.sciosystems.com that has artificial intelligence to do just that. Just like a person, the system needs to have some subject matter expertise to understand what is written. So they decided to target reading contracts.
Please contact me at len_bland@conceptequity.com if you would like to know more.
Posted by: Len Bland | January 31, 2008 at 01:58 PM
onebox was one of the best things released by Google in the last 12 months. (even if it was a "defensive" product) Alos, it looks like yahoo is following in the footstep of universal search/one box aggressively as well. Do a quick search "plumbers in upland" and you can see the blending of yahoo local and video.yahoo.com in the main search results.
Posted by: will | January 31, 2008 at 08:01 PM