Tuesday, January 25, 2005
The Google To-do List
After Google now indexes closed captions, I’m wondering what else they might digitize and make findable. Here’s a convenient checklist.
| Status | Project title | |
|---|---|---|
| Scanning the world wide web | Done | Google Web search |
| Scanning the local hard disk | Done | Google Desktop |
| Scanning books | Done | Project Ocean, Google Library |
| Scanning Usenet | Done | Google Groups |
| Scanning IRC | Still to do | Google Chat? |
| Scanning people talking | Still to do | Google Conversation? |
| Scanning meteors and other space data | Still to do | Google Hubble? |
| Scanning satellite images | Done | Google Keyhole |
| Scanning sound files, applying speech-to-text | Still to do | Google Audio? |
| Scanning fragrances | World not ready yet | Google Nose? |
| Scanning instant messengers | Still to do | GIM - Google Instant Messenger? |
| Scanning catalogues | Done. | Google Catalogue |
| Scanning melodies | Still to do | Google Whistle-2-Find? |
| Scanning emails | Done | Gmail |
| Scanning and understanding images | Still to do | Google Images 2 |
| Scanning video files | Still to do | Google Video 2? |
| Scanning materials | World not ready yet | Google Texture? |
| Scanning radio channels, with speech-to-text | Still to do | Google Radio? |
| Scanning Word, PDF, Flash, XML | Done | Google Web search |
| Scanning people’s thoughts, on a voluntary basis | World not ready yet | Google Brain? |
| Scanning how people browse the web | Still to do | Google Browser |
| Scanning highway, city traffic | Still to do | Google Cars? |
| Scanning temples, ruins etc. using a digger bot | World not ready yet | Google Archaeology? |
| Scanning the deep sea | World not ready yet | Google Fish? |
| Scanning telephones, fax & copy machines, on a voluntary basis | World not ready yet | Google Babble? |
| Scanning Torrents | Still to do | Google BitTorrent? |
| Scanning cinemas, similar to Google Video | Still to do | Google Video Plus? |
| Scanning magazines | Done | Google Print |
| Scanning daily newspapers | Still to do | Google News Print? |
| Scanning the weather | Still to do | Google Weather? |
| Scanning the stock market | Still to do | Google Money? |
| Scanning search engines | Still to do | Google Meta? |
| Scanning SMS | Still to do | Google SMS |
| Scanning lost things | Still to do | Google Lost & Found |
| Scanning private packages, letters, on a voluntary basis | World not ready yet | Google Postal? |
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