Re: Beagle's Purpose

[Srikant Jakilinki <sriks dcs gla ac uk>]

I do not know where I read it but I think Apple is also going in for 
such "help me" functionality with its Spotlight engine. I think it was 
Steve Jobs who mentioned this during some Expo when he was showing 
Tiger-OS. Or it could be some Stuff-I've-Seen prototypes I saw. They 
were using it to find programs and help and tutorials...

Whatever it is, I wondered at that time why would anyone want to use 
Spotlight/SIS for anything else than find information that "we" as users 
create. The other help files is the responsibility of the OS and 
hardware vendor and there are UI issues here as well

Anycase, if we ever want to use Beagle for "extra" things, it could be 
done and should be easy as well technically and aesthetically. We are 
all used to see "sponsored results" at the top or the side of search 
results pages. Beagle could follow the same layout of putting 
help/utilities at the side or at the top. But its main job should be to 
index "my" information as a priority. That is what I think...

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Joe Gasiorek wrote:
> So I was tossing around this idea last night of a Beagle functionality
> but I'm not sure if it is what we are aiming for.  I was looking into
> having Beagle index installed Help files (DocBook XML format).  I
> think this touches on a bigger issue...is Beagle to find my files or
> just in general, help me.
>
> For example, if I ask beagle how to "Play DVD" or "Burn CD" it could
> bring up a launcher to the app to perform the task and a link to the
> help file on how to do it.  But if the point in using Beagle is just
> to find your files, these results could just get in the way, and would
> take time away from indexing more important data like mail.
>
> Anyways, I was just curious on peoples thoughts on the matter.
>
> -- Joe Gasiorek
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