Internet Searching

current options and future developments


                   

  • FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
    • subscription services
    • personalisation
      • appeals most to over 50 year olds
      • Google Personalized Web Search
      • Eurekster
    • improved results pages (display and diverse content)
    • greater recall of information
    • regional listings
    • more specialised indexes

     

 

  • Musicplasma
    • rod stewart
    • search subject in centre
    • size of circle depicts popularity
    • clusters represent related styles or epochs
    • available in English, French, German, Spanish

 

  • 3-D search
    • 3D Model Search Engine - Purdue University
      • more than 75% of engineering design and manufacturing comprises reuse of previous knowledge
      • sketch the part, search
      • see skeleton of part and manipulate it
      • system starts understanding query in greater detail
      • specify whether part was created by machining or casting
      • multi-step search strategy increased accuracy of results by 51% over single-step process
      • based on voxels (volume elements represent volume of object at any given point)
      • find parts, background about how it was produced, details about machining and casting, therefore cost of production
      • accuracy of up to 85%
      • incorporating information about human perception aimed at bridging the gap between the human and the system

Mary Bruce 2004

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