How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

Re:How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google by fyi80 on Saturday May 04, 2013 @06:59PM (#5656643)

If only there were a way to predict that users searching for "taxi" tend to want local results, and users searching for "abortion" don't. You know, like that other search engine does, called, um, Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=abortion

https://www.google.com/search?q=taxi

Or if you were willing to type more than 2 words into the search box before blaming Google for failing to read your mind, while you simultaneously tell Google to stop trying to read your mind.

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Re:How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google by ryankey721 on Sunday May 05, 2013 @12:15AM (#5657423)

I believe he's trying to say that he doesn't want results tailored to him at all. For example, if I were republican, I'd tend to get anti-abortion material when searching.

He seems to be saying that he'd be okay with typing in his city name to get local results in exchange for not having any personalization. In other words, it's beyond local vs non-local.

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