whitenight - 2:40 am on Sep 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

lol perhaps i missing the 'innovation' that already passed me by.

How is this any different than what they are ALREADY doing?

they can provide results customized to an individual's situational needs: where they are located, what time of day it is, what they are doing

Gee, how many searches a day do i get (granted ASK.com send alot more searches like this) that read:
"How can i buy cheap widgets in SpecificTown, USA"

....which leads to my page thats targets
"cheap widgets in SpecificTown USA..."

absolutely GENIUS Goog! They created AI!
'Cept I(we) already did all the work for them.

Google already forces MyTown searches and Ads down my throat when i'm searching for ANYTHING that might be "mytown" related.
This is different and unique how again?

Those results ALREADY change depending on time of day (again, partly do to Goog, partly do with the ADVERTISERS preferences)

We could train our systems to discern not only the characters or place names in a YouTube video or a book, for example, but also to recognize the plot or the symbolism. The potential result would be a kind of conceptual search: "Find me a story with an exciting chase scene and a happy ending..."

Gee, Goog, You're going to "TRAIN YOUR SYSTEMS" or write a 3-day script that uses the same simple algo on IMDB to put together the USER-GENERATED TAGS with the titles of the movie?

Or are they going to "train their systems" to use the same algo that Amazon has been using for their books for 4+ years?

Again, absolutely BRILLIANT!
Although that should have been coded 2 years ago before you bought youtube and books.

Thanks for playing "catch up" and acting like you've created a new wheel.
Hmm. isn't there a saying about invented wheels?

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Who cares if they created them or bought them?

I don't care.
lol you made the sarcastic argument. I responded.

They're wildly popular, not a strikeout, which is innovative in itself.

As mentioned above, popular (within a certain niche) but NOT successful within THEIR niche (ie making money), therefore neither innovative monetarily, nor innovative in the strict sense of the word.

Besides, Google has enough cash to buy new business models if they can't create them own their own.

I already made this point in the first post. :confused:

But as YOU used the word "business".... the point of BUSINESS is to MAKE MONEY.
Again none of those "wildly popular" products comes anywhere close to being innovative, OR profitable.

Which brings into question how "innovative" their monetization/marketing is, as well.