What is Digg?30 Comments
- ardnut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Give it a few years...
http://www.obnoxiousfumes.com/googlekeys.jpg - luchid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I really like Google Blogoscoped.
One they missed: "Where are my god damn keys?" - omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Text a message to 46645 (GOOGL) with the name of the movie and the zip code you're in... or the name of a restaurant and the zip code, or the name of just about anything and the zip code, like "McDonald's 91210". If you don't know the zip code you'd like to look in, you can substitute the name of the city. You can also look up people this way too.
- jgreene777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5google mobile rocks. it's fast and intuitive.
- rcube, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Pretty interesting. It kinda feels like what Askjeeves does... but with much "smarter" results.
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Interesting ideas, though I question how feasable some of them are...
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How is Google meant to know what he wants?
It's just meant to magically know that he wants to chat with an engineer? - onikage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Clearly because you're fat and sweaty.
Google can't implement that calorie counter fast enough! - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2#4 will never happen (chat with a G rep). Google has a hard enough time responding to email within the year, so there's no way they'll have someone online all the time waiting for chats.
Yes, I'm bitter. - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I wish so much they had a zip code lookup. Especially for my cell phone as so many cell phone applications and websites are zip-code specific, like movie times, finding a good restraunt, etc.
- rcube, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Theoretically you could deal with the "subjective" by implementing what Pandora does with music to Google search results. Imagine a Google that learns what type of sites and results you go for per search query... and then taylors results to your search habits.
It seems like it would be harder to implement with websites though. Still, a cool thought. - afex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3EBFoxbat:
first why don't you tell me which zipcode McDonald's is in. - avsa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3not so much subjective. Google made it's grades exactly by being able to select the "best website on chicken curry". Page rank on recipes...
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2A like operator for images would seemingly require a ton of image anilization unless it goes by file name, in which case you don't need it because you can just search for variations via images.google.com/
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Unfortunately most of the time when I search for something the very first result isn't exactly what I was looking for. Although it does seem like an interesting idea.
- dergachev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1rcube-- Doesn't digg already manage to infer quality of weblinks? And if you mean managing personalized preferences over websites, have you heard of StumbleUpon? They've been doing the pandora thing with websites before Pandora was around. I used to live on it before I switched to digg.
- traherom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, that's what I thought... the others are more feasible, however.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Some are very feasable, others are more subjective. You'd have to pick the BEST recipes for red curry chicken, and that is very subjective.
- fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With more specific searches you can already do some of these searches http://search.zektek.com ... oh and as far as the profile aka personal search is concerned Vast http://vast.com has that.
- quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Most of these queries already return the results this guy suggests, only without the fancy graphic next to them. For example, type in "it was the nightingale and not the lark" and you get book results. Type in "red curry chicken" and you get recipes -- "french fry calories" gives you a link with just that. I don't really see how these are that helpful.
- Nanobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would love an inline translation tool. It's annoying having to click over to Language Tools every time.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Right, but I want to give a name and get a zipcode back. How hard can that be?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would hope google doesn't ever learn my intimate details.
- nuvem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He wants to find out *what* his zipcode *is*
Jebus, don't people read anymore? - Slig, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Another must-see post from Philipp! dugg!
- fynergy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Some of these can be done already:
http://www.google.com/coop/docs/guide_subscribed_links.html
It's up to the sites like myspace and caloriecounter to generate the xml files needed. - avsa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2well. not so much: http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
It doesn't needs to recognize what the image is about, maybe just "something red on the center, and blue background on top... - jgreene777, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Why does it smell like sweat and cheetos in here?
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