By: Kris Patel

Kris Patel — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:33:52 +0000

I do like your analogy of a “grocery store-like search engine”. It is VERY apt. Although, having consumers acquire, nay I say “purchase”, extra equipment in order to run the search engine would probably be a bad idea. No one wants to buy extra stuff just to make something they already do a bit more efficient [unless of course the jump in efficiency would mean greater profits, justifying the initial equipment investment]. I do not necessarily want to segregate and split the market into business users and personal users. So, maybe sticking to 3D navigation via mouse and keyboard would be best. The actual 3Dimensional environment would probably be akin to most video games which use their graphics engines to construct an interactive 3Dimensional area.
Good comment S! Much appreciated!

By: skorasaurus

skorasaurus — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:03:36 +0000

Whoo, that is spiffy.
The concept of (Using the engine to allow the user to actively search out the results, rather than predict what the user wants and give them a list by list).
I think of it like a grocery store.
Say you want raspberry jelly, save-a-lot brand, in a 12 oz jar.
Where a traditional search engine, like google right now, lets you into the grocery store [the store is their engine] and you have to go aisle by aisle [or page by page] to find what you want.
Or in this other concept that you’re proposing , the aisle where jellies are “located in this aisle”, and the user sees on the shelves, the different types, and its narrowed down by saying, ok, I want this kind].
(and the peanut butter, which is often searched with jelly, is not too far nearby, in the store and in the results, but if you’re not interested in a jelly peanut butter hybrid [and they might be, even if the user didn't type into the search engine, because they may have wanted that jelly because they discovered the jelly type thanks to a recipe using the PB and J.]
[as i type this out, I realize the analogy is not perfect, so if you are confused or don't find it to be an analogy, i see].
That concept gives more control to the user (and makes them do more work, in a sense).
Also, there’s a music site similar to quintera,
[oh wow, just checked the site for the first time in a while, they added movies to it]
http://www.liveplasma.com/
liveplasma has a great concept, but they haven’t figured out how to represent a 3-d world on the computer screen yet.
*gets the crazy idea in head of:
- using a joystick/remote, akin to wii, to move around in the search engine,
[another idea, make something like a tv remote, something that you can easily grasp in your hand and act as a mouse.]
- using a circular monitor [donut-shaped] [mmm...donuts *drools* homer] that you would poke your head into and the search results would
display on the screen, and you touch the screen area[spectrum], where the different spectrum[i.e. For a search on "windows" one part of the results displayed is for glass windows in a house; another part of the spectrum for computers; etc]
[gamers would buy the circular, donut monitors as well]
[sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel]
[I'm on call to move to NYC this summer].

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