How does a robot use a search engine

Yue Zhuge March. 5, 2015

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Materials for a talk give in USC and the Silicon Valley Based on a blog post in: https://medium.com/@yuezhuge

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“4 eggs”

You found about 274,000,000 results

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“orange cake”

You found about 654,000 results

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“My mom gave me this recipe and I can't make it often because I would

weigh 500 pounds.”

You got it !!!

What the robot saw What the robot wants

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Human Search Engine

Keywords Many possible answers

Robot Search Engine

Lots of inputs (maybe noisy)

One best answer or decision

The human search engine versus the robot search engine

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More robots searching and making decisions in the future

Small amount of inputs

Can judge and choose from provided results

Large amount of noisy inputs

Need clear answer, or help in deciding what to do next

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Introducing two of our apps: Sight and Screenshots

One can explore the new way of mobile input, search and feedbacks via useful apps

The Sight App

• Browsers: safari, chrome… • News: cnn, nytimes…… • Readers: flipboard, prismatic… • SNS: facebook, twitter…

get entire articleFrom any mobile app• Image used as the URL • Complete articles retrieved

• Clean and comfortable layout for reading

• Automatic organisation and search

take a partial clip

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• Find the source app of screenshots

• Extract images from screenshots and save to your album

• Extract text and edit to perfect

• Discover the destination link behind the screenshot

• Pin and share the images, edited text and links to SNS like Pinterest, Facebook, Evernote, Mail and more

The Screenshots App

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Each mobile device is a robot

A search engine optimised for “robot inputs” and makes intelligent decisions will be in great need.

Homepage: https://sight.sc/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sightapp

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sightapp Contact: service@sight.sc

Thank You!

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