Automatic for the People: blinx Introduces Pico
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Written By Reprise Media | March 8, 2006 | Share This
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Last time we checked in on blinkx the San Francisco-based multimedia search outfit was rumored to be in talks with Rupert Murdoch.
A lot’s happened since then, including the development of Pico, a product the company is dubbing “the world’s smallest search engine”.
Unlike other search engines, Pico automatically searches for information based on the content on a user’s screen. In other words, it does its chores without being asked. There’s no need for the user to stop what he or she is doing and perform a separate query.
BetaNews has more of the story, including this quote from blinkx CTO Suranga Chandratillake:
“While others, including Microsoft and Apple, have talked about the potential of implicit search before, blinkx has once again pre-empted others by making it reality first. More than anything else, Pico is about the possibility of search-less search.”
Read the official blinkx press release here and then check out this great interview with the aforementioned CTO Chandratillake from a month ago.
Topics: Search: Innovations |
I don’t think Blinkx is the first to do this. I remember Autonomy themselves releasing something similar a few years back called Kenjin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/694879.stm