Comments on: Lindsey Graham and the Failure of Real-Time Search http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Behind Caffeine May Be Software to Inspire Hadoop 2.0 http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217238 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:28:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217238 [...] us from some really big technology changes that could influence those trying to deliver the real-time web in the years to come, much like the company’s MapReduce and Google File Systems inspired the [...]

]]> By: Lindsey Graham | Lindsey Graham and the Failure of Real-Time Search http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217237 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:15:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217237 [...] don’t have a DVR, so I couldn’t just hit “rewind.” First I [...]Tweet This Read more Share and [...]

]]> By: Lindsey Graham » Current News Trends http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217236 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:15:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217236 [...] Lindsey Graham and the Failure of Real-Time Search [...]

]]> By: Surj http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217235 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:01:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217235 I thought some readers may be interested:

This technology was explored some time ago (1995?) by a MIT Media Lab grad called Bradley Horowitz and his company Virage. Brad went on to Yahoo and acquired Flickr for them and ran the Brickhouse innovation group.

http://www.virage.com/

Virage was bought up by Autonomy who also invested in a company called Dremedia, started by a BBC guy Matt Karas which did similar things ( index voice ). So if anyone could make this happen it should be Autonomy.

The one company everyone seems to miss is Nexidia. They started off selling their technology to governments and now have moved into similar space of indexing real time voice streams.

So the takeaway is that it is entirely possible to make video that contains narration searchable. Someone needs to productize it for the consumer.

]]> By: Eric http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217234 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:52:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217234 Jordan -
Good post. Clearly one WILL be able to do this someday (no doubt the NSA can currently do this for every television show broadcast anywhere on earth already)… it is mostly just a matter of all the right technologies getting integrated.

@Todd, I suspect you don’t need speech-to-text to solve this problem at all. There’s a little thing called closed-captioning which is common on all broadcast television (I can’t swear it is being done for these hearings, but I’d bet a fair amount of money that the PBS feed has it) and COULD make this all easy – but I don’t see it being put to use for video search – YET.

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217233 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:46:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217233 Adam, spot on mate. The fact that this post was even considered blogworthy in the first place made me gag a bit.

]]> By: Rebekah http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217232 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:07:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217232 Dear Adam,

You ARE correct! I am indeed a spoiled brat. I am glad you are here to let me know this in REAL TIME!

Sincerely,
Jordan

]]> By: Adam Gutterman http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217231 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:45:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217231 Dear Jordan,

It sounds like you won’t be happy until the entire information of the world is being fed into your brain in real-time.

You’ve got a Virginia ham under one arm and you’re still crying because you have no bread. Get over yourself, Jordan.

]]> By: Jordan Golson http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217230 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:25:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217230 Thus, “the failure of real-time search.”

]]> By: Rebekah http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217229 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:48:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217229 My exact thoughts, Adam! Not everything said or done can quite possibly be at your searchable disposal AS SOON AS IT HAPPENS. Give it 20 minutes & it just might be.

]]> By: Adam Gutterman http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217228 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:38:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217228 You’re a complete brat. Relax. Technology is miracle and you’re a douche for wanting it to serve your every little need.

]]> By: Anand Karasi http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217227 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:05:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217227 The technology exists … not 100% accurate at auto transcription .. but it exists. No one has yet implemented it. Probably an opportunity for someone to introduce vtweet … like vblogs

Anand

]]> By: Todd http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217226 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:31:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217226 Sir the issue you are having is that the technology is *not* here ( yet ) to have machine transcriptions of what was said, and made into searchable semantic mark-up. Something that does not exist cannot be deemed a “failure”.

Your personal definition of the “real time: web made need modifying. Tweet at will and it will be cached, searchable, but that’s text-to-text, not human speech-to-text. Google is close with translating speech to text, as seen in your Google Voice account, but it will be a bit longer.

The larger question would be, why isn’t the stenography being performed inside the room, as Sen Graham speaks, being made publicly available?

]]> By: Jessica http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217225 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:14:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217225 Yahoo results have news on Graham at the hearings. Don’t forget the other engines. :)

]]> By: Artruro Jayson http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/lindsey-graham-and-the-failure-of-real-time-search/#comment-217224 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:58:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58607#comment-217224 Good point, and you’re right. Real in-depth, intuitive searching on the major search engines, a real thinking crawler, is not something we yet have. I’d like to see more of a move toward this, myself.

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