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The next thing that will happen when we have all of this rich content all over the place is that we will have to improve search.

The thing I do not like about Google and Yahoo is, that they do not recognize documents with similar content. It happens often on the Web that a post or document is spread out over more then 50 websites. Now that is great for the author but not for the searcher because it blows up your search result unnecessarily. With InfoCodex this will not happen because the linguistical database recognizes similar documents and puts them into groups. This does not blow up your search result unnecessarily. http://www.ywesee.com/pmwiki.php/Ywesee/InfoCodexP rocedure

Three things Google should do:

1. Automatically classify a document according to its content.
2. Automatically generate an abstract of a document.
3. Generate a Heat-Map of the Contents of a Search Result.

http://www.ywesee.com/uploads/Main/InfoCodex_22.2. 2007.pdf

Zeno Davatz - 4th May 2007 07:48 - #

Hmmm... Python in the browser is certainly interesting to me...

The substance of Mark's point is that the platform is not open, so you are at the vendor's mercy.

In fact it is highly likely that there will be a fully open implementation of Silverlight by the end of the year...

I've heard better points from other commenters on Silverlight, the most relevant ones citing the lack of cross-platform development tools. As the only development tool *I'm* likely to want is an IDE - that doesn't seem like a show stopper either.

Silverlight certainly opens up some exciting new possibilities.

Fuzzyman - 4th May 2007 14:06 - #