WireDoo, M.C. Hammer’s New Search Engine
Both of the articles below outline a new search engine, WireDoo. The first, found on New York Times, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/m-c-hammer-announces-wiredoo-a-search-start-up/?scp=8&sq=search%20engines&st=cse, drew my attention because of the headline- “M.C. Hammer Announces WireDoo…”. That M.C. Hammer was announcing a new type of serach engine piqued my interest. At first, I envisioned something similar to Google, a very tech-y search engine that is very mainstream. Since this article was justsomething that I recalled when thinking about connections and search engines (since I read the New York Times online religiously), and gives a very basic outline of what the new search engine is/will be, I will elaborate a bit more on what makes this new engine different, and provide another article with additional information.
As stated in the above article, this engine will not just process your request, and serach for the most sought after webpages on that topic, the most prominent sources (e.g. New York Times and Wall Street Journal for top world news items). It takes your specific request- for example, cars (the example also used in the NYT article), and return information that is not only ‘top’ and very prominent, but also related necessities that go along with cars. Insurance, pricing, and consumer service are among the cited information that is presented alongside your ‘car’ search on this new engine.
Also of interest in the article, M.C. Hammer notes that while he is jumping on tech bandwagon, he is just trying to formulate a deeper search, and is not trying to compete with companies such as Google, which was my original thought upon scanning the article. This brings to light something of additional interest relative to the class- is this type of search really a ‘deeper’ search? When thinking of webpages in terms of a network of nodes, I feel as though this search is more broad, and more narrow, not necessarily ‘deeper’, as indicated. By returning this wide variety of related searches, I envision a parent node with many branches, leading to each of these topics (insurance, etc.), all over the place, but not delving deeply into those additional topics until a search is done on that topic itself.
Then again, if you search ‘insurance’, will you really gain more information on car insurance, or will you just be returned a variety of general information sources on different insurances?
This additional article,http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20123692-501465/mc-hammer-plans-to-launch-search-engine-wiredoo-to-rival-google-and-bing/, does provide a bit more information, and even includes an interview with M.C. Hammer himself, to give background on what he actually is trying to do with this search engine. Again, though, it seems as though he is trying to develop a comprehensive and deep structure with a method for only a broad, undetailed search.
This new topic, of the WireDoo search engine, did just spark my attention, because I wanted to write an article about a search engine- nodes and directed graphs are one of my CS interests. This new concept made me think of a few things, including trying to develop a mental image of the structure of the type of search engine that M.C. Hammer is envisioning, and also to wonder if M.C. Hammer really does know very much about technology. When he decided to develop this engine, did he really think of the structural intricacies that the computer scientists he employed would need to create?
Just an interesting, newer topic in technology.
(And even more new, Google’s newest algorithm. I was going to rewrite this blog about the new algorithm, but there is probably going to be an influx of posts on it next week…http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/google-changes-search-algorithm-trying-to-make-results-more-timely/)