No practical use for a bit of software that tells you which thing is like the others? This service isn't meant to be useful - its showing off something that is useful elsewhere.
> No practical use for a bit of software that tells you which thing is > like the others? This service isn't meant to be useful - its showing > off something that is useful elsewhere.
> On Nov 6, 4:00 pm, karanasr...@gmail.com wrote: > > Honestly, I don't really see a use to this...
> No practical use for a bit of software that tells you which thing is > like the others? This service isn't meant to be useful - its showing > off something that is useful elsewhere.
> On Nov 6, 4:00 pm, karanasr...@gmail.com wrote: > > Honestly, I don't really see a use to this...
debm...@gmail.com wrote: > Its incredibly useful to know which digital objects "belong" together. > What do you mean by useful elsewhere?
> kenoir wrote: > > Really?
> > No practical use for a bit of software that tells you which thing is > > like the others? This service isn't meant to be useful - its showing > > off something that is useful elsewhere.
> > On Nov 6, 4:00 pm, karanasr...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Honestly, I don't really see a use to this...
What they are going to use it for is searches like "java"...if you just searched for "coffee" then it won't give you programing results and if you just searched for "c++" then it won't ive you the cofee results.
I am an America English teacher living in China. I had a student who is writing a thesis on an English-language novel after the 1950s and needed ideas. After giving her two examples from books I read, I couldn't think of anything else. I entered one of my ideas--"To Kill a Mockingbird"-- in Google sets, and it gave me some more suggestions.
I can imaging how this could be useful for very many purposes.
Though this one might seem like a toy at first, so what use can Google sets be, beyound the fun and game?
Few scenarious where you probably can't use regular search for finding what you're looking for:
1) Imagine you have forgotten high-school trig terms; sine, cosine and tangent would result secant, cosecant and more math terms
2) birght, cheerful, happy would result delighted, joyful and so on notice delighted is related to our three terms and the thesaurus probably won't give you this
So not just the sets, but what is not in the sets is just as important. How far does it go for each Google set to be represented within the context of everything else?
Aton wrote: > debm...@gmail.com wrote: > > Its incredibly useful to know which digital objects "belong" together. > > What do you mean by useful elsewhere?
> > kenoir wrote: > > > Really?
> > > No practical use for a bit of software that tells you which thing is > > > like the others? This service isn't meant to be useful - its showing > > > off something that is useful elsewhere.
> > > On Nov 6, 4:00 pm, karanasr...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Honestly, I don't really see a use to this... > What they are going to use it for is searches like "java"...if you just > searched for "coffee" then it won't give you programing results and if > you just searched for "c++" then it won't ive you the cofee results.
Aton wrote: > What they are going to use it for is searches like "java"...if you just > searched for "coffee" then it won't give you programing Aresults and if > you just searched for "c++" then it won't ive you the cofee results.
Just a note: this is already used in there searches in a beta format.....it will eventually be used in a non-beta format.
I thought it was totally cool for finding all the companies that make a particular kind of thing (Cars, electronics, toys). That's great for researching many things in a given class. Or, being a "data freak", you just have to remember the other names in a set ("I can remember five of the continents, but what were the other two?" - Okay, so maybe it's better at brands than geography.) From an identification point of view, it seems to be a quick way to get other related words/names and a much better way to find alternate terms than searching the web, viewing a few results until finding a search term that might narrow it down.
> Few scenarious where you probably can't use regular search for finding > what you're looking for:
> 1) Imagine you have forgotten high-school trig terms; sine, cosine and > tangent would result secant, cosecant and more math terms > ... > This is why i suggest using Google sets
> karanasr...@gmail.com wrote: > > Honestly, I don't really see a use to this...
I would recommend a possible development for IA training.
Based on Google Image Labeler and Google Sets, just play finding the related and un related words, concepts and images.
You could set the initial words. Google sets generates a set from that initial list. From that set, select the words not related, and insert new related words. Maybe Google Sets could also show some pictures and use them for/from Image Labeler.
This way you could aid training Google's IA, our future no-evil powerfull overlord.
debm...@gmail.com wrote: > So not just the sets, but what is not in the sets is just as important. > How far does it go for each Google set to be represented within the > context of everything else?
> Aton wrote: > > debm...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Its incredibly useful to know which digital objects "belong" together. > > > What do you mean by useful elsewhere?
> > > kenoir wrote: > > > > Really?
> > > > No practical use for a bit of software that tells you which thing is > > > > like the others? This service isn't meant to be useful - its showing > > > > off something that is useful elsewhere.
> > > > On Nov 6, 4:00 pm, karanasr...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > Honestly, I don't really see a use to this... > > What they are going to use it for is searches like "java"...if you just > > searched for "coffee" then it won't give you programing results and if > > you just searched for "c++" then it won't ive you the cofee results.
You are right, Google Sets has to grow up. However the topic that you asked about also was something that is still debated upon. Read this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents) wikipedia article for more info.
There are several ways of distinguishing the continents. 7 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Australia, North America, South America, Europe, Asia 6 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Australia, America, Europe, Asia 6 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Australia, North America, South America, Eurasia 5 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Australia, America, Eurasia
On Jan 7, 7:33 am, "CC" <CCS....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought it was totally cool for finding all the companies that make a > particular kind of thing (Cars, electronics, toys). That's great for > researching many things in a given class. Or, being a "data freak", you > just have to remember the other names in a set ("I can remember five of > the continents, but what were the other two?" - Okay, so maybe it's > better at brands than geography.) From an identification point of view, > it seems to be a quick way to get other related words/names and a much > better way to find alternate terms than searching the web, viewing a > few results until finding a search term that might narrow it down.
> > Few scenarious where you probably can't use regular search for finding > > what you're looking for:
> > 1) Imagine you have forgotten high-school trig terms; sine, cosine and > > tangent would result secant, cosecant and more math terms > > ... > > This is why i suggest using Google sets
> > karanasr...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Honestly, I don't really see a use to this...- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
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