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Comments on: I’ve seen the new face of Search, and it ain’t Google. https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/ Thoughts on Tech Startups and Venture Capital Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jaredran (@jaredran) https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24785 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:02:18 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24785 “…the answer would be inside these 10 links. Absurd!” Let’s not underestimate the value of diversity of information. Asking someone a question, getting one answer, and accepting it as truth is the most *convenient* way of getting an answer, but it’s one of the worst ways to get good information. Imagine if every student accepted the teacher’s word as gospel. We wouldn’t have debate or progress, let alone entrepreneurs.

While you may be right that text is an excellent UI/medium for delivering information on a mobile device, I for one don’t want a world in which I’m expected to accept one point of view as “the answer.” Can we get a text to send me many possible answers?

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]]> By: http://www.assebmlyofbishops.org https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24716 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 01:16:06 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24716 When someone writes aan paragraph he/she maintains the plan of a user inn
his/her mind that how a user can be aware of it. Thus that’s why this post is perfect.
Thanks!

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]]> By: Start up: making the Apple Watch, Tinder with an AI, web v apps again, what’s the real mobile search?, and more | The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24657 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:00:54 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24657 […] I’ve seen the new face of Search, and it ain’t Google » Alex Iskold […]

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]]> By: David Khachatryan https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24650 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:20:24 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24650 Great to see that more people share common humane visions.

Will be glad if you check out http://www.askonfly.com that solves such a problem you mentioned.

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]]> By: I Have Seen The New Face of Search and It Is Not Google - AlleyWatch https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24574 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:27:31 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24574 […] Reprinted by permission. […]

]]> By: PhilTTipp https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24572 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:50:35 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24572 I disagree that voice is the future of search.

Firstly, have a look at the current Voice Call vs SMS stats. Users are quite happy to tap away at their devices and not everyone wants to blether away in public either.

Incidentally, many, many people go all day saying less than 2,000 words in total – what they do utter is brief, in context and usually in shortform (professional or tribal) – AI has no hope.

Secondly, the voice recognition software as it stands right now, doesn’t understand accents outside of mainstream west coats americanese – useless for the rest of the world.

The biggest hair in the soup is context as alluded to here:

http://counternotions.com/2012/11/12/siri-future/

Without context, the technology is dead in the water.

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]]> By: alexiskold https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24567 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:47:44 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24567 Thanks for the comment Sam and glad you enjoyed the post. I will check out the services you mentioned as I am not as familiar with them. Is Invisible Boyfriend more like Sensay – distributed to a network of potential responders?

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]]> By: alexiskold https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24566 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:45:59 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24566 Dylan, glad that it helped trigger the post, its great. The key thing that clicked in my head is simplicity, familiarity and form factor of messaging on mobile. In a lot of ways, it may chart the path of Twitter — people will use it as a platform to build more and more things. I have a few follow up ideas on how it might unfold, happy to share with you offline.

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]]> By: Sam Balter https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24564 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:57:59 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24564 Hello Alex,

I really enjoyed your post. In my opinion, Cloe and Magic are a bit too far ahead and will have difficulty in scaling their current setup. Take a look a Digit, an automated savings company that uses command based messaging, and Invisible Boyfriend. Invisible Boyfriend is particularly interesting because of the way messages are distributed to a team on Mechanical Turk and Fivrr. Very scalable model for message response.

I think traditional search will become less important then relationship based search, but instead relationships will be with large brands that can handle specific request. So if you are interested in flights, Hipmunk will be a contact in your phone and you will just chat them. If you need clothes, Macy’s will be a contact you can text to see if they have deals or clothing in your size.

As a bit of background I work for Waterfall, a mobile messaging and CRM company so I follow lots of different text messaging based programs. Let me know if you ever want to discuss how texting will be evolving over the next few years.

]]> By: Russ Wallace (@rustysf) https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24563 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:54:57 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24563 That’s probably still true at the moment that SIRI will have a problem with that query, but no question the results will be far closer than they were just six months ago.

Experts in voice rec are predicting that within just 18 months, we’ll see software that can understand human speech better than we can–more vocabulary, better ability to pick out words in background noise.

So we may not be there yet, but we’re close enough that it’s time to start planning around voice interfaces.

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]]> By: Dylan Tweney https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24562 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:52:25 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24562 Thanks for this post, Alex. You helped me crystallize my thoughts about the “messaging economy.” I linked back to this post from a story I wrote for VentureBeat, btw: http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/26/dylans-desk-why-the-coming-messaging-economy-will-be-very-big-business/

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]]> By: Ist Texten die Zukunft der Mobilen Suche? « Googlereport – Google-Experte Lars Reppesgaard https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24561 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:15:57 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24561 […] seen the new face of Search, and it ain’t Google”, schreibt Venture Capitalist Alexis Kold von Techstars. Statt dessen soll die gute alte (und bis zum Aufstieg von WhatsApp schon totgesagte) Textnachricht […]

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]]> By: I have seen the future of search, and it isn’t Google – Quartz https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24559 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:01:02 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24559 […] version of this post appeared at AlexIskold.net. We welcome your comments at […]

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]]> By: Dylan’s Desk: Why the coming messaging economy will be very big business | SomeLearning https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24558 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:06:10 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24558 […] And search: As NYC Techstars’ Alex Iskold recently wrote, I’ve seen the future of search, and it ain’t Google. […]

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]]> By: Dylan’s Desk: Why the coming messaging economy will be | Ad Pub https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24555 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:32:21 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24555 […] And search: As NYC Techstars’ Alex Iskold recently wrote, I’ve seen the future of search, and it ain’t Google. […]

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]]> By: Dylan’s Desk: Why the coming messaging economy will be very big business | MyWebspace https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24554 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:13:06 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24554 […] And search: As NYC Techstars’ Alex Iskold recently wrote, I’ve seen the future of search, and it ain’t Google. […]

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]]> By: Dylan’s Desk: Why the coming messaging economy will be very big business | 381test https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24552 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:28:18 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24552 […] And search: As NYC Techstars’ Alex Iskold recently wrote, I’ve seen the future of search, and it ain’t Google. […]

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]]> By: jamescummings https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24550 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:06:28 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24550 I agree that voice will ultimately be the most used, but try asking SIRI where Tuktoyaktuk is. Have fun. 😛

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]]> By: jamescummings https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24549 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:04:12 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24549 I agree that voice will ultimately be the most used, but try to get SIRI to tell you where Tuktoyartuk is. Have fun. 😛

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]]> By: alexiskold https://alexiskold.net/2015/02/22/ive-seen-the-new-face-of-search-and-it-aint-google/#comment-24547 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:33:06 +0000 http://alexiskold.net/?p=939#comment-24547 Thanks Ariel! I increasingly in the camp on non-social / distributed solution to this, where there is a mix of AI and specialized humans. But I will be of course watching you guys closely.

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