Comments on: Google Base Learning http://comparisonengines.com/2007/05/22/google-base-learning/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:58:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Winooski http://comparisonengines.com/2007/05/22/google-base-learning/#comment-965 Winooski Thu, 24 May 2007 17:38:33 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=715#comment-965 This should be a big deal, no? I'm surprised that more people haven't picked up on this story yet. Google is soliciting users of Google Base to help it categorize entries by offering guesses, which reminds me of the old game, "20 Questions". ("Is it bigger than a breadbox?"..."Is it something you'd have in the house?"...) Kudos for covering this. Someday soon, this conversational style of classifying data records via user input may the top tool that people use to refine their Google searches. This should be a big deal, no? I’m surprised that more people haven’t picked up on this story yet. Google is soliciting users of Google Base to help it categorize entries by offering guesses, which reminds me of the old game, “20 Questions”. (“Is it bigger than a breadbox?”…”Is it something you’d have in the house?”…)

Kudos for covering this. Someday soon, this conversational style of classifying data records via user input may the top tool that people use to refine their Google searches.

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