The next phase of search
The next phase of search
Rafe Needleman Former Editor at Large
Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.
Search on the Web is still mostly text-based. If you want to search inside the actual content of photos, video, or audio (not just their filenames or embedded data), you're out of luck, at least on Google. New tools are emerging, though, that can scan within media files. The latest that I've heard of is , a service that does speech-to-text conversion of podcasts and then allows you to search for spoken words and phrases. Other tools in this category: Blinkx and the soon-to-be-released Riya (rumored to be a Google acquisition target). Also, aviation buffs may have noticed that the airplane picture site Airliners.net has a "more like this" picture search.
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