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It's not that crazy of an idea. He's not talking about holding up a scanner to your screen, scanning it, then OCR'ing a big tiff. He's probably talking about
by seiji 13y ago
It's not that crazy of an idea. He's not talking about holding up a scanner to your screen, scanning it, then OCR'ing a big tiff. He's probably talking about something that takes screen shots every few seconds, OCR's that, then indexes the contents based on what's on your screen, your current URLs, etc.
"Computer, search for every time I saw the words 'crazy idea' in the past six months and include how my workspace looked at each occurrence."
- gojomo 13y agoI'd go beyond "not that crazy" to say this idea is inevitable once compute power and storage become cheap enough.
- LordIllidan 13y agoWhat about the surely obvious privacy implications? A lot of people on HN are barely trusting Google with their mail, or even their searches - would you trust them with seeing everything on your screen?
- gojomo 13y agoGoogle's successful offerings in search, email, docs, desktop search, Android, and Chromebook suggest that the privacy worries of "a lot of people on HN" aren't very relevant to their bottom-line. Also, the functionality – complete screen archiving and indexing – could be implemented locally. So, its value can be evaluated separately from the question of whether you'd want the screengrabs/indexes living at Google.
- nl 13y agoWhat about the surely obvious privacy implications What about them? would you trust them with seeing everything on your screen? Hell yeah, in an instant, if it meant I had a way of searching everything I'd seen! I'd want a way to turn it off at times ("Incognito mode"), but to me the benefits would be huge.
- dkuntz2 13y agoSo ... you do it all locally? Especially because the above hinged on higher powered computers. I don't doubt that Google could do this right now...