Google recently announced that it would begin work on an autonomous search program for mobile devices by which your phone would constantly be searching based on the information you appear to need. For example, when you walk by a theater it tells you what’s playing there, when you walk by a cafe it tells you the Yelp! listing- generally attempting to bring us further into the locational web much like foursquare. The real deal here is that these things will be done automatically, which freaks people out. See, as opposed opting in to a third party app which stores all the data, Google autonomous will be trying to predict what you want based on your location and your history, which is kind of Google’s big deal. The real question is will the web be not only able to deliver relevant results but quality results? Who cares about the opinions of 50 suburbanites about the restaurant on this street, the real question is: do they serve omelette’s? Which is hard enough to find out on a home computer. This is basically the same idea as google instant: google has a ton of information, but the web is fundamentally too big to deliver real quality, so they just give away the info in bulk. Like so much of it that it’d constantly be running in the background, in your pocket, even though no-one’s seeing it.
