Acidus wrote:
] Timball talk about something like this with me once. Some
] Linux/Gnome project so something.
]
] Basically each X app had its own kind of RSS feed, about what
] was currently being "done" on that app. A central program
] simply compiled this info, and would look for relevant info,
] be it on your computer (meta info is your friend!), or do a
] google query. Tim said this thing got demoed at some Linux
] conference (don't know which one) and that they ran into some
] fundamental barrier with the number of searches 1 IP can send
] to google in a certain time span.
]
] Who knows how vaporware this thing is, but its sounded cool.

[ Color me skeptical. For one thing, most of your data doesn't have any useful metadata, unless you put it there, and furthermore, google's not really the best thing to use when trying to determine the content of a document. It'll match keywords with other documents on the web, and it's reasonably smart about it, but i don't see a way to make it take my document and perform a semantic analysis on it. There's a lot of work going on in this area, but i don't think anything's broken past the basic experimentation level. I'd like to be proven wrong. -k]

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