A New Vision of How People Search
Written April 29, 2009 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
The initial idea was to find new and innovative ways to organise data. This then evolved into organising and navigating photos which in turn mutated into a new approach to photo sharing. Throughout the whole process there has never been one ‘big’ idea until researching future technologies and the future of the internet. Reading into web 3.0 or ’semantic web’ (as opposed to the current ’social web’) provided some insights into what may be possible in the future due to the restructuring of the information on the back-end of the internet.
This led to a new service that would enable people to become much better at navigating the internet to find things they like or need. The premis is an in-browser interface that dynamically ‘reads’ the current page a user is on and then provides recommendations based on the content. This may not sound that innovative but in fact it is very if you consider that the information suggested will be web wide and not just site wide. Coupled with that the fact that it will list every type of media from entire websites to articles and images to music and films based on a user’s preferences. This allows people to navigate quickly to related items based not on a keyword they typed in to search, but based on other content that exists in the page that keyword led them to.
Below are a few simple scenarios and conceptual illustrations to visualise this idea. They are by no means final and the interface will undoubtedly change.
The next step is to investigate different perspectives of using the service and where it can be used; on a mobile phone perharps.
The important change is that there is now some belief in this project and concept as well as a real feeling of pleasure from persuing this course,
