Fwd: The future of search

[Martin Pham Dinh]

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From: Martin Pham Dinh <martinp...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:05 AM
Subject: The future of search
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Google is always a step ahead of the competition.  

Predictive search is much more than auto-complete in a search box. 

I heard of Google Now app with it's prediction capability. I decided to try it. 

Every tuesday, i have lunch with my son at my mother's.  Today, google Now gave me a card with direction to my mother's place. It's crazy but very useful. Simple data mining. 

I heard a few stories about Google Now. Guy is at a meeting outside his home town, as he goes out of the building at lunch time, he gets a Google now card suggesting local sushi restaurants at a walking distance from where he is. Google knows it's lunch time, it knows where he is and it knows he likes sushi.  Incredibly useful but also a bit scary at the same time. 

The difference between Google and it's competitor, like Apple's Siri? Google has like 15 data centers spread across the globe. I think Apple has only 2. With probably 10 times more processing power, it can do more. They have been planning the future for a decade. 

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Martin Pham Dinh
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