A Forecast of Search Engine -- Could it be ture?

在Google Blogoscoped的档案里看到篇很有趣的文章--Evolution of a Search Engine描述了Google对搜索引擎未来发展的展望。文章中，作者把搜索引擎未来一段时间的发展分成了至少五个阶段，并分别描述了每个阶段进步的特点，比如第一层次的搜索引擎是类似于Yahoo！最早的网页Guide和Index，而目前我们所使用的Google处于第二层次,The ranking and the way the snippets focus on the interesting bits of what are we searching for.原文在此，有时间再把它翻译出来：


http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-02-02-n25.html

Friday, February 2, 2007

Evolution of a Search Engine

“You don’t need a satellite to see the cosmic microwave background radiation! Turn on your TV to a channel that’s not broadcasting: a few percent of the snow on your screen is the Universe talking to you – or rather, whispering. What’s it saying? It’s saying, ’Try to understand me.’”

– Philip Nelson

Right now, to answer your queries, Google quotes from the web, and orders the quotes in a list. In the future, Google may combine these quotes into a free-style text for a more direct answer. When the Google AI advances beyond that, it may analyze the texts available to it to come up with conclusions of its own. Let’s sketch this potential evolution using an everyday search query.