周格时代
Search Engine Can Predict What You Want
小性化枝,索引擎
By Zena /ovino 陈青青译注钱多秀审订
In the future the mswillhdm-at 将来,新闻会找上门来 至
least according to Futureful , a Finnish ~I.'" 少 FutureftÙ这家芬兰的创业
startup building a predictive discovery iPad 公司是这么说的,该公司正在开
app that will deliver personalised infonna- 发一款具有预测功能的 iPad 应用
tion. The company's mission is to "give you 程序,此应用程序能够发送个性
what you want before you knew you wanted 化信息。该公司的宗旨是"在你知
道想要什么之前,给你想要的"。
[2J嗯,毫无疑问,这 4切听
[2] Hmm, this all sounds veηZeit- 起来非常具有时代精神。但是
geist-y , no doubt. But isn't Futureful just FutureftÙ会不会又只是这样的
another wannabe startup aunmg to hoo 一 家创业公司:抱负不小,希望一吸
UD as much venture capitalist fundin区 before1-" LU...J :I........"'. • '-'-"--'-"'......---'-' '-'-r~ ..,--"........ ..........'-4-....ö 收尽可能多的风险资本,而最终
it predictably sinks without a trace? 却不出所料地销声匿迹?
l3 J Its methods seem sound enough. [3 J该公司的方法似乎很合
Futureful's algorithms glean infonnation 理。 FutureftÙ的算法是:从脸谱
from social feeds , such as Facebook , 网、关系网、推特、美味书签、轻
linkedln , Twitter , Delicious 1 , Tumbl? 博客和摄友会等社交网站上收
and Flick?, to locate trendingωpics. Al- 集信息,以确定流行话题。这些
gorithms crunch users' interests , behaviour 算法可以快速分析用户的兴趣、
and posts with those of friends and other 行为和与朋友及其他用户之间
users to suggest su均ects for further explo- 往来的帖子,以预测进→步探究
ration. Tapping one or more of these sub- 的话题。在触摸屏界面上选择
Notes 注释:
1 全球点击率最高的收藏夹网站之一。注册后,用户可以把自己的收藏夹保存在这个网站
t。这样无论换到任何一台电脑上,都可以调用自己的收藏夹。 2 微博客的一种。日
志短小精悍,触发点十分随意,可以是一幅照片、一段视频、一节引言、一条链接甚至一个闪
| 念。 3. 一家以图片服务为主的网站,可提供免费及付费数字照片存储及分享方案η
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jects on the touch-screen interface will gen- 一个或多个话题就会生成一系
erate a collection of web pages that can be 列网页,可以像杂志一样一页一
swiped like a magazine. 页翻看。
[ 4 J But perhaps Futureful might be on- (4J但是 Futureful 可能会有
to something here. For it seems unlikely 所作为,因为未来的网络搜索似
出at future web exploration will always in- 乎不可能总是要将问题输入到
volve typing 甲eries into Google' s search
box. Neither will it be purely social. Last
autumn , former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
said: "the ability to tell me things 1 di也白
know but am probably very interested in is
the next great stage of search. "
[5J So has a tiny little Finnish startup
that has only secured funding from a gov-
ernment-backed Finnish Technology agency
谷歌搜索框中,也不可能是纯社
交性的。去年秋天,谷歌前总裁
艾里克·施密特说搜索引擎下
一个重大阶段是,要能够提供用
户不知道但可能非常感兴趣的
信息。"
(5J芬兰的这家创业公司规
模很小,仅靠从政府支持的芬兰
技术代理机构获取资金保障,并
与一所地方大学合作。那么这
and is in partnership wi出 a local university 家公司在和大公司的竞争中己
stolen a march on the big boys?
[6J "It's unclear what exactly the next
sta在e of search will be. Nobody has nailed
it yet ," says Anderson.
[ 7 J Futureful says it is bringing
serendipity into the game by proposing sites
beyond users' pre-defined interests , an idea
intended ωcounter suggestions that a high
degree of personalised information will in-
evitably narrow people's worldview.
[8J "What is 出e point of personalisa-
tion 证 it only reaffirms what you already
know ," says Marko Anderson of Fut田eful.
[9 J Defining serendipity can be tricky .
Robin Burke , a computer scientist at De-
Paul University in Chicago , points out 出at
经先发制人了?
(6J安德森说下一阶段的
搜索引擎到底是什么样,现在还
不明确。没有人能确定。"
( 7 J F utureful 公司表示,公司
通过推荐用户预先确定的兴趣
范围以外的网站,为这场竞争带
来了意外发现。这一想法意在
反驳"高度个性化的信息必将限
制人们的世界观"的观点。
(8JFutur哩缸l 公司的马科·安
德森说倘若只是再次确定你
已经知道的事情,那个性化还有
什么用呢?"
(9J要确切了解"意外发现"
并不容易。芝加哥德保罗大学 l
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it doesn't mean showing user百 random web 的计算机科学家罗宾·伯克指
pa在es. 出,这并不意味着随机给用户显
[ 10 J " W e' re not just suggesting things /示网页。
that people would be interested in , but
we're also helping them discover new [ 10 J 安德森说我们小仅
stuff, " says Anderson , whose app relies on 推荐人们可能会感兴趣的信息,
a combination of natural language process- 而且帮助他们发现新东西。"他
ing and network mathernatics. 咀1e more da- 开发的应用程序基于自然语言
ta the system has on a large number of peo- 处理和网络数学的结合。系统
ple , the easier it becomes to find common- 掌握用户的数据越多,就越容易
alities between individuals. 找到人与人之间的共同点
[ II J "Having a system be capable of
understanding what' s a reasonable recom- [ 11 J 伯克说让系统理解
mendation,由at' s a challenge for sure , 什么是合理的推荐肯定是 4个
says Burke , adding that Google is also in- 挑战。"他还补充说,谷歌也越来
creasingly acting as a recommender system , 越多地在充当推荐系统,而不仅
rather than just a web search engine. • 仅是网络搜索引擎。
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