Search: It ain’t just for the Internet anymore
Imagine if we were able to find things in our ‘real’ lives the way we find them on the web. Here are some things we search for on a daily basis:
- Snooze button on alarm
- Slippers
- Glasses
- Clothing, including shoes and socks
- Breakfast
- News items, either via television, newspaper or radio
- House keys
- Car keys
- Briefcase or purse
- Shortest route to destination
- Food or coffee en route
- [Insert here: all the computer stuff we search for, either online or locally, all day]
- Physical files or artifacts
- A fresh roll of toilet paper
- Our printout amongst many
- Shortest route to client office
- Room in massive complex where client meeting is being held
- Name of client’s significant other
- Any topics that should be strenuously avoided
- Parking space
- Bottle of wine your significant other asked you to pick up
- Those olives (not the green ones, the black ones, but not the crappy black ones they serve on airplanes)
- Way to avoid construction on the way home
- That one ingredient you were sure you had
- The gravy boat
- Any topics that might actually engage your teenage children in conversation
- A TV show that you’re genuinely interested in watching
- The other half of your pajamas
Show me the search engine that can find all that—then I’ll be impressed.
