SELECT 7 - Mobile Search
February 06, 2007
After attending a fascinating lecture on the current state of mobile search we took a stab at the problem ourselves.
Ideally your mobile would anticipate and answer your questions automatically. A favourites/query list from Delicious or Google Zeitgeist would go some way towards achieving this but for more in-depth queries some kind of application would be needed.
We decided that as entering text is a pain we would rule out using any search fields – one thing that everybody was in agreement about last night. From art college we also knew that seven is the maximum number of pieces of information that could easily be remembered at a glance.
SELECT 7 was born.
Using a series of menus containing no more than seven items, in just seven clicks you can find 823,543 separate pieces of content. These menus would become smarter using pattern recognition, free tagging, feeds from Google/Delicious or any combination of these.
Any venture capitalists looking to get into mobile search should contact The Originals by clicking here.
Hi,
I was at the event and afterwards I talked to Ghazi Ramadan from Iotasphere. His product is pretty similar to what you describe here. The main addition he has is that once you've gone to a specific link, you typically bookmark it so it's very easy to get there again. Very simple, works well with syndicated content. A bit "walled" but simple and effective at what it does.
Paddy
Posted by: Paddy Byers | February 6, 2007 11:32 PM
Hmmm, nice idea, we'll claim your future success as an outcome for Mobile Monday London where you first thought of it.
Incidentally, your system makes _everything_ 7 clicks away, whereas you’d expect frequently used things to be closer than less frequently used things.
Good luck with the funding :-)
Posted by: Jo Rabin | February 6, 2007 07:38 PM
