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Originally Posted by axel77
* Well software agents are something that I read about in almost every computing scientific article, but never have seen anything close to it in reality.
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I think search agents are certainly/possible the future. However, I don't think Google will become irrelevant. On the contrary... the search agent will need a search engine service backing it. There is no way your local PC using even a broad band connection will have the time/bandwith/space to search all the data on the web... and you don't want all your resources doing that.
What will happen is the search indexes like Googles will need to become even more more annotated with metadata to categorize the data. So searches for stuff will become more focused. Single word searches won't happen anymore. For example, you might put in a word like france and then a suggestion list will pop up with stuff like food, travel, sites, landmarks, history to narrow down the search.
No Google will actually be a provider of search agents which use Goggles search index to mine for what you want. The search agent of course will watch what you do on your pc... It will be like the "awesome bar" in FF3 on steroids suggesting stuff based on your documents, emails, sites you've browsed, forum posts, blogs you follow, etc.
For some real interesting search results take a look at cuil.com... it is a new search engine that does some of that "search agent" type stuff. In FF3 you can't see the text box... but in IE it shows. I'll have to email them about that.
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