Wednesday, April 19, 2006

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Google Doodle - the future of mobile search

Google Doodle. No, it's not for kids. It's for everyone to make the mobile search experience the most enjoyable and efficient. Here's the proposal:

The first step is to transform the cell phone keypad into a touch pad. Take the keys/buttons off, and make it a flat surface, like a touch pad for the laptop. Keep the numbers and letters visible, printed behind a clear surface.

The next step is to keep the Google Number Search system but instead of the search input being numbers, it will be a doodle (touch pad input) by the end-user. That's right. The end-user just needs to move their finger along the route that they would follow when typing in the numbers for a GNS term, tracing the path as a doodle. So instead of tapping 32632646 (FANDANGO), the user just needs to connect-the-numbers, using the visible keypad as a reference. This picture is how the doodle will be made for FANDANGO:








Google will get input as a set of touch pad coordinates that, when graphed, would look like this:








Note that somehow - and I have absolutely no expertise in this - Google would determine where the doodle began (on the 3) and ended (on the 6).

If you think about it, or try GNS enough, you'll find that there are a gazillion distinct patterns that one follows along the keypad for just about all the retail brands, company names, etc.... Try Microsoft (642767638), Google (466453), Amazon (262966), etc... Each route that you are following when connecting those numbers is unique. All Google needs to work out is how to interpret double- or triple- taps when the finger just stays in one place for (what ordinarily would be) two or more taps on the same key, as in the case of the two sixes in 466453. That shouldn't be a big problem for Google to figure out.

The tremedous value of this mobile search proposal is that it is FAST. Darn fast. I can doodle a FANDANGO in 1.3 seconds. What other mobile search technology can beat that? Heck, I can't even say Fandango faster than doodling it! There's no limit to how fast you can doodle entries as long as it is legible (to Google). If you don't believe this is within the faculty of human predisposition, watch an expert signer (sign language) or an expert in drawing Chinese characters or a floor trader's hand signing on the NYSE.

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