Comments on: How Search Is Evolving Beyond Text http://pro.gigaom.com/2009/10/how-search-is-evolving-beyond-text/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:08:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ed Gubbins http://pro.gigaom.com/2009/10/how-search-is-evolving-beyond-text/comment-page-1/#comment-546 Ed Gubbins Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:04:59 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=16068#comment-546 Agreed, miten sampat. I put Aardvark in the social-search category I mentioned in the beginning of my column, but you're right -- the interface is important. Phone- and voice-based search (like JustDial) are especially noteworthy because far more people have phones than have computers. That distinction is most stark in the developing nations, of course. Pretty soon every human on earth will have access to a mobile phone. Okay, what else did I leave out that I shouldn't have? Anyone? Agreed, miten sampat. I put Aardvark in the social-search category I mentioned in the beginning of my column, but you’re right — the interface is important. Phone- and voice-based search (like JustDial) are especially noteworthy because far more people have phones than have computers. That distinction is most stark in the developing nations, of course. Pretty soon every human on earth will have access to a mobile phone.

Okay, what else did I leave out that I shouldn’t have? Anyone?

]]> By: miten sampat http://pro.gigaom.com/2009/10/how-search-is-evolving-beyond-text/comment-page-1/#comment-534 miten sampat Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:09 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=16068#comment-534 i think you are missing another dimension to the evolution of search - that of the interfaces. apps like Aardvark (search over IM), and JustDial (call a number and ask questions) are important developments. i think you are missing another dimension to the evolution of search – that of the interfaces.

apps like Aardvark (search over IM), and JustDial (call a number and ask questions) are important developments.

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