<$BlogRSDUrl$> Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Thursday, April 01, 2004  

All Eyes on Google By Steven Levy
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4570868/

"Google has made such eureka moments as common as sneezing. Who hasn't had such a revelation on Google, whether the discovery was an old girlfriend's whereabouts or a cutting-edge treatment for a rare disease? Amazing to consider that less than a decade ago, search was a backwater, deemed not very interesting and certainly not very profitable. ... 'Search is the ultimate killer online app,' says Bob Davis, former CEO of Lycos. 'The Internet without search is like a cruise missile without a guidance system.' ... 'Search is not a solved problem,' says Udi Manber, CEO of A9, a new search company formed by Amazon.com that will focus on e-commerce. 'Ten years from now, what we're doing now will look pretty primitive.' ... Indeed, over the next few years search will evolve in a number of key areas, and Google faces big competition in all of them. ... MULTIMEDIA. Google has an Image Search function with almost a billion pictures. Microsoft researchers in China are going full blast to create software that searches through pictures -- possibly identifying faces and locations. Meanwhile, a Washington, D.C., start-up called Streamsage has created breakthrough technology that searches audio and video broadcasts by analyzing speech. ... ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 'The ultimate goal is to have a computer that has the kind of semantic knowledge that a reference librarian has,' says Google's director of technology Craig Silverstein. But truly smart search engines are probably decades away." [ Newsweek / available from MSNBC]

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