Increasing the number of items that can be searched is great, but the actual searching algorithms really haven't gotten THAT much better in the past 3 years or so.
Obviously, you can't have breakthroughs every year (or maybe even every 5 years) but search as an algorithm still has much more room to improve. I'd love to see an improvement in that, as opposed to just increasing the number of pages indexed.
I'm still waiting for a context modifier for keywords, so when you type something like 'mechanics:teeth' you get all the technical matches for gears, and when you type 'medicine:teeth' you would get all the medical matches for dentistry.
Just use http://www.clusty.com/ [clusty.com] . The search results are just as good as google, and it generates a list of categories that you can select from.
Admittedly, "mechanical" isn't in there... The categories are quite a bit more specific, such as "baby", "shark" "wisdom", "cleaner", etc.
Cool, and definitely worthwhile, but... (Score:2)
Obviously, you can't have breakthroughs every year (or maybe even every 5 years) but search as an algorithm still has much more room to improve. I'd love to see an improvement in that, as opposed to just increasing the number of pages indexed.
Still cool though...
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I'm still waiting for a context modifier for keywords, so when you type something like 'mechanics:teeth' you get all the technical matches for gears, and when you type 'medicine:teeth' you would get all the medical matches for dentistry.
Re:Cool, and definitely worthwhile, but... (Score:2)
Just use http://www.clusty.com/ [clusty.com] . The search results are just as good as google, and it generates a list of categories that you can select from.
Admittedly, "mechanical" isn't in there... The categories are quite a bit more specific, such as "baby", "shark" "wisdom", "cleaner", etc.