by FP Staff Mar 11, 2013
We’ve already started seeing Google voice search thanks to its various JellyBean devices, but this is just the beginning as far as the search engine giant is concerned.
The company which is known for its hugely ambitious projects (Read cars that drive themselves and Google glass), has nothing less than a space-age level vision for the future of its search engine.
“The destiny of search is to become that ‘Star Trek’ computer and that’s what we are building. You can walk up to a computer and say, hey, computer..” said Google’s Search Head Amit Singhal at the ongoing South by South West (SXSW) Interactive, reported ABC News.
For those of you not familiar with the Star Trek computer, here’s a quick clip of it in action:
The revelation by Google is however, not new. John Giannandrea, Director of Engineering at Google, is the man tasked with making the Star Trek computer come to life, and is responsible for ‘The Knowledge graph’ which attempts to provide results for search queries like “Leonard Nimoy” using answers like an image, life blurb, birthday, height, notable works, and related people reported The Verge.
In an interview with the website he said that ‘voice easily accessible’ search was the future and dismissed theories that search tools were making people stupider. “Captain Kirk is a smart guy, even if he has to ask the computer for things every five minutes. If the information is that easy to access, then really, what’s the difference
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