Has google solved the problem of organised browsing, and identifying the
pockets of content of a subset of resources, like a fairly comprehensive
overview of the academic literature of religion, for instance? That's what
I envision a library classification being used for. What are the Google
world's tools? Wikipedia? A directory such as the initial Yahoo intended to
be? Bing?
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Peter Schlumpf <pschlumpf_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate to say it, but 20 years or so ago, libraries had a real chance to
> somewhat shape this wave. But they just blew it by going around in circles
> in their little world like the Nowhere Man, forever chattering about the
> minutiae of MARC, AACR2 and Z39.50. The world moved on.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Dave Caroline
> <dave.thearchivist_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Alexander Johannesen
> > <alexander.johannesen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hiya,
> > >
> > > So, um, to play the part of the sour-puss;
> > >
> > > Karen says;
> > >> Google uses the text provided by web page creators to interpret
> > >> the meaning of the images; it doesn't interpret the images themselves.
> > >
> > > Just a quick correction; this was probably true a couple of years ago,
> > but
> > > nowadays that's simply not true. All (well, most; there's filters that
> > > apply) images you find through Google are indexed after an image
> > > interpreter have gone through. This won't tell you what's going on in
> > super
> > > details, of course, like interpret the meaning of some scene, but it
> can
> > > detect people, recognize them, tag them, detect female nipples
> (important
> > > to the US for some reason :) ), some attributes about the weather
> (sunny,
> > > raining, etc.), similarities to other pictures (yesterday I uploaded a
> > > bunch of pictures of our local classical musical ensemble, and similar
> > > pictures were automatically merged to form animated samples, for
> example,
> > > in addition to automatically tag faces it recognized), dominant colors,
> > > some shape recognition and a few other bits. And note; this is only the
> > > beginning.
> > >
> >
> > hmm you reminded to re try one of my test searches
> >
> > Now google knows me and my site but does not connect any of you to my
> site
> > so I
> > would be interested in what you see
> >
> > Imagine you used to work for a company in the UK in the 1960's
> > or wanted to research the rumor that they used to manufacture transistors
> >
> > A google image search with "Lucas semiconductor manufacture" as the
> > term now seems to put me on top of the pile
> > I can see that google is working to recognise the content and put it
> > together.
> >
> > I saved the page, this is what I see.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/mirror/google_lucas/search.html
> >
> >
> > Dave Caroline
> >
>
Received on Mon Jul 29 2013 - 19:40:01 EDT