Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Visual Imagery and Tag Clouds

I like what the search engine bing is doing with catching images on the home page and links around the picture like a cloud to other relevant interesting searches. It seems really neat on the outside but the search results end up being a bunch of random things about penguins. This really illustrates the inadequicies of search engines. Some mobile providers have advertised voice recognition where you ask any question to your phone and get some answer from an online search engine. This usually only works well if the exact question was asked on answers.com or a similar site, that is if the phone even understands your voice. I like the images on bing though. A pathfinder for example might have an inspiring image that has a translucent cloud of the relevant topics but with more refined searches even vetted links.

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