Are There Search Engine Disruptive Ideas?

Google Tech Talks January 23, 2007 ABSTRACT The modern Internet is, like all collections of information artifacts, affected by technology as well as culture. The question is what kinds of current technology ideas are potentially disruptive to Google goals, and what might one have to do to understand that disruption, and turn it to a positive effect. This talk will present some technical ideas that arise in broader AI research, but again and again reveal connections to culture that show the difficulty of "democratizing" the world's information. Examples include data visualization, sensor networks, and belief revision, most notably connected to the idea of trusted digital community. Credits:...