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computing researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features.All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects.
This is pretty cool. Right now they're envisioning this for an enterprise search. Any ideas how this could be made to work in the real world?
On a serious note it sounds pretty cool. Although Im lackin any real uses for it at the moment there has to be some.
Regards...jmcc
Didn't get much play first time around. I guess the only thing most people are interested in these days is Google and Yahoo! ;)
I'm looking for a song which start like this: "bmm bmmmmmm bmmmmmmm" (pretty lame huh?).
I don't know who the artist is, or even where it comes from. All I know is how it starts. The music is stuck in my head. I heard it somewhere, not sure where though, and am feeling very embarrassed to ask a friend, as he might think I'm an idiot ("hey I know this song it starts of like bmm bmmmmmm bmmmmmmmm. Have you head it? do you know who made it? cause I want the CD!")
In that cases, there could be an audio search, where you get to "query" the search engine, as in use a microphone and record your query through the service, limiting 20 seconds or something.
So in that search engine, I go in and I say in my 20 seconds, "bmm bmmmmmm bmmmmmmmmm" with my best voice and when I submit it, I get 1 result, which is the sample of it through a site where you buy CDs!
Now that kind of a search engine would be cool...
The idea of drawing "the query" is also pretty cool, wouldn't mind having one of those on the web (great for porn use, as jmccormac said ;) )
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