On Tuesday 07 October 2003 17:26, Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote: > Warning: This concept has not been investigated for feasibility. > > In response to the Storage (fom Gnome) concept, is it possible to > "connect" a Linux file system to the Google search engine? In theory yes, however you would just be representing the results in a different manner. And as there are potentially millions of results from a google query youd have to adapt the results in some manner to make them more presentable. I dont really see the point as 99% of the results you get are just html files. > You would be able to enter a search: "music by Beethoven" or "messages from > Donna". These queries would be passed of to a mini-Google, the universe of > which would be your filesystem. It would then search among your music or > your email, and deliver the results? This is possible and has already exists in a variety of forms. The implementation problems however are considerable. If you do a full such for each query then the time to results could be considerable. Or alternatively, you have to keep some indexed database of meta data, which means having both a data base layer and the meta data itself. For some files like mp3s they already contain metadata, so that isnt a huge issue. However you would have to implement a metadata schema that covers all types of files (how can you do a search for "images of a tree" for instance without very very complex image analysis and AI object recognition, this is incredibly difficult and something i have worked on in the past). > I know this is a very basic question but much of the concept of "Storage > for KDE" is beyond me at the moment. Most of the hype about storage is its query mechanism rather than anything else. It seems just to be a keyword search which picks up on the context of a word in the query as well as the keyword itself. i.e it interprets "image of" as "files of type image/*" rather than "files containing the word image". Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\______ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||----w | | ----------------------- || || | Using Debian SID
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