That is a very interesting proposal indeed, a search engine that doesn’t return links to existing pages but instead generates them on the fly based on the query and the knowledge it has, like an aunt who just must have an answer to everything, even if it’s made up, would be a lot more entertaining and possibly even more useful than existing ones. It would no longer be a search engine, but an answering machine, which certainly fits Google’s goal of making knowledge find-able.
Ok, that’s not what you meant, but I think it has potential.
I’ve considered how this could be used to e.g. teach difficult concepts like in math. Collate the best info from different sources, then a reader sees the same idea explained 20 different ways = the reader gets it.
That is a very interesting proposal indeed, a search engine that doesn’t return links to existing pages but instead generates them on the fly based on the query and the knowledge it has, like an aunt who just must have an answer to everything, even if it’s made up, would be a lot more entertaining and possibly even more useful than existing ones. It would no longer be a search engine, but an answering machine, which certainly fits Google’s goal of making knowledge find-able.
Ok, that’s not what you meant, but I think it has potential.
That’s pretty much exactly what I meant.
I’ve considered how this could be used to e.g. teach difficult concepts like in math. Collate the best info from different sources, then a reader sees the same idea explained 20 different ways = the reader gets it.