Please Hammer, Don't Hurt Google!
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Minister, sales charts-topping rapper, stylish innovator, funky headhunter: all those words can be used to describe the oddball career of MC Hammer. But there are a few more that you may not know about, like, say, “tech start-up investor.” Hammer unveiled his newest scheme at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday; the interestingly named WireDoo is a Hammer-powered search engine, and it’s all about relationships.
Settle down, tiger; not those kinds of relationships. The New York Times reports that Hammer’s search engine is all about product relationships. In the example cited, if you search for “car,” WireDoo shows you tangential information for car insurance, car prices and car safety ratings. Hammer says WireDoo isn’t a comprehensive search engine like Bing or Google; instead, it’s a “deeper type of search” for people looking for information related to the topic they search for. Could be kinda useful, we guess.
U can’t touch this anytime soon, so our intrigue/cynicism will have to remain in check for a while longer. (That's right, we went there!) WireDoo is still in development and a launch date hasn’t been set for the service.
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praack
October 24, 2011 at 10:41am
actually this sounds more like semantic searching- but the explanation has been dumbed down- so you weed out almost all the normal hits, and the relationship hits will garner the research you need.
i saw a pilot on this for medical records and disease categories years ago (1999)- it worked but never appeared outside of closed loop systems - never made it to the internet- I wonder if web 2.0 will finally allow it to come to light
h e x e n
October 21, 2011 at 4:02am
lmao @ hammer. I forget what show I saw him on, but he was raving about how cool this new case he got for his ipad was because it had a mini keyboard built into the case.
So, he pretty much turned the ipad into a laptop.
OK, if you want a god damn laptop, buy a fucking laptop. Don't half ass some mini keyboard to some uselss form factor like a tablet. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if you attach a keyboard to a tablet, you're an idiot. Why the hell didn't you just get a laptop to begin with? The fucking ipad 2 starts, STARTS, at $499. That same $500 can get you a fairly decent Win7 machine that has WAY more functionality and doesn't make you look like a complete tool. <---(hehe, see what I did there?)
Man, people are stupid.
mattd390
October 20, 2011 at 1:35pm
That seems like a search engine for people who don't know what the heck they are looking for... dumb.
Instead of "please hammer don't hurt 'em" we should say "please hammer come up with a better idea" LOL!
Danthrax66
October 20, 2011 at 7:14pm
So a search engine designed for 90% of internet users looks like a great idea.
T0mmy1977
October 20, 2011 at 11:45am
I wonder what names show up when you search for has-been rappers, or how about stars who squandered their fortunes.
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