Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha on the Future of Search

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Search

Drawing from location awareness and voice recognition technologies, representatives from Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha weigh in on the future of Internet search. Bing's Blaise Aguera y Arcas promises a revised form of search that offers time and location specific results custom-tailored to the user.

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This session on Web search features Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Bing), Ben Gomes (Google), Ilya Segalovich (Yandex) and Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram Alpha). Jochen Wegner (Focus Online) moderates.

In 2004 Blaise Aguera y Arcas founded Seadragon, Inc., to develop ideas in scalable architectures and user interfaces for interacting with large volumes of visual information, potentially over a narrow-bandwidth connection. Microsoft bought Seadragon at the beginning of 2006. The Seadragon team's most visible project to date is Photosynth (labs.live.com/photosynth), a collaboration with researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Washington.

Ben Gomes is a Distinguished Engineer at Google where he is a lead for the company's engineering efforts on search features. Gomes has been with Google for more than ten years and has worked in the development of nearly all aspects of the Google search service ranging from crawling and indexing to ranking and new feature design.

Conrad Wolfram founded Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in 1991 and in 1997 also became Strategic Director at Wolfram Research, Inc., founded by brother Stephen. In 2009, the Wolfram |Alpha knowledge engine spin-off was launched to dramatic interest - both because of its new approach and the unique combination of Wolfram Technologies which made it possible.

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[RackNineInc]

If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors. Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 08-21-06

[Redfingers]

@DavidAKZ

Well they can take their ad revenue and fucking shove it if they go that route because I'll most definitely go somewhere else the day they start shoehorning my search results to sell me some shit.

[DavidAKZ]

@Redfingers money !

[porahi]

Pls active the captions on the channel

[Redfingers]

Why do they think we want them to narrow our search results based on a bunch of arbitrary presumptions they've written into the computer code?

As a matter of fact, if I want to search about where the fucking chocolate shops are in the Alps, I'll search for that. Imagine if I search "chocolate" in the alps because I actually want to see the fucking composition of chocolate but these assholes decide it's a good idea to shove a bunch of queries I didn't ask down my throat.

[57beachbum]

Wolfram has got it right.

[LordNapalm]

That wolfman guy just started making things up.

[CognosSquare]

At least they have a fat angry fuck as their mascot now.

[ananiasacts]

They should have named it Ouija.