From: Doug Sutherland (wearable_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 2001-12-15 16:31:56
jbamster wrote:
> I've used Google for some time, and your ideas really strike a "chord."
> I don't get the #4 Google keeps flashing pages at you, #5, & #6.
> Does that mean that you are actually clicking on a match and somehow it
> remembers the ones you clicked on (outside of backward & forward)?
No clicking ... let me elaborate a bit more. You start an
advanced search ... like Joerg was looking for electrode
impedance during meditation. So you do an advanced search
on those three keywords.
You're not interfacing with google directly, you are working
with a shell on top of google. The normal google index is
loaded into an array. A program goes and grabs the first html
page (or converts a pdf to html) and shows you that page for
say five seconds. You look at it and trigger an EEG match on
"yes it's interesting" or "no it's a bunch of crap". The
program loads the yes links into another array and tosses
the rest. So you quickly roll through tons of pages, and all
you are doing is a quick glance and yes/no to build your real
"cleansed" index. After you're done that you browse the URLs
as usual. What we usually do is give up after a few links.
The point is that it takes two seconds to look at a page
and know if it's worth looking at or not, but it's a PITA
to click, browse, press the back button, get stuck on those
dumb pages that don't allow the back button to work, wait
for images and ads to load, etc etc. Here you don't do
anything but watch the pages flash by you and think yea
or nea. You are sifting, not yet searching.
Some level of pre-processing could be added to ged rid of
dead links, pages that are known to be useless (via filters
you set up based on keywords etc). The code that does the
grabbing ignores java and javascript and shockwave and all
that crap. Perhaps it could even do a little spider crawl
through a whole site. You sit back and watch it crawl all
over the site and and think "yea or nea" while building
the index. It might also be interesting with speech synth,
the text is parsed out and pushed into viavoice, you just
listen.
We are not talking about complex brain-computer algrithms
here, this is as simple as it gets: yes or no. I spoke to
a guy a while ago who is getting multiple people to match
on EEG pattern recognition of thoughts of three different
colors. That's already one more event that I would need.
There is a box you can buy for disabled kids to play
nintendo with ONE switch. As soon as you figure out two
matches (yes/no) in theory you could play nintendo ...
-- Doug
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