Comments on: Vodafone Sends a Message with Otello Image Search

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:04:08 +0000

It’s interesting, though I’m not sure how useful I’ll find it personally. I’m more the type a query and search person.

The service would work great for all those images where you don’t recognize the subject, a monument, a person you think might be famous, etc. Definitely a market, but how useful I don’t know.

By: David Snyder

David Snyder — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:04:25 +0000

Great point, but phrase based search cannot determin intent either.only relevance

By: PS3

PS3 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:24:58 +0000

An image will capture what you are looking at but cannot convey why, or what you need to perform the search for.

Say I take a picture of a local cinema. Will it come back with the history of the cinema, or viewing times, or maybe other cinemas in the area. How will the search engine filter the image.

By: pola

pola — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:10:02 +0000

what do think about this (Otello)?

By: David Snyder

David Snyder — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:08:41 +0000

definitely seems to be a great tool for travelers. My question would have to be on the size of the photo index they have to test images against. This seems to be the main concept limiting this search technology, besides questions of relevance.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:26:45 +0000

This is some wild technology. I can see it being helpful on trips and vacations among other things.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:41:40 +0000

Well it all depends on the type of pictures that are sent, and it would be interesting to see how this would work out.

By: David Snyder

David Snyder — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:13:27 +0000

I agree. I think the technology has to be limited. But its still interesting that companies are still developing new information retrievsal systems. Out of all the bad systems something great could surface and change search.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:59:45 +0000

This one doesn’t excite me. Wonder if there would be any takers or a market for this kind of service. And considering how bizarre pictures could be, I really doubt things would work as expected.