> Nobody expects to be able to type 'find me the files that changed yesterday'
Google Photos is pretty close.
"photos from december" works fine. "Find photos from decemeber" doesn't.
I can type in "effects photos" and find photos Google applied effects to, which is pretty nifty.
It is probably equivalent to the old game parsers in intelligence, but for a given domain it works pretty well.
They could stand to filter out a lot more words, but it works OK in general. If I type in "photos with a blue sky" it knows to drop "photos with a", photos presumably being redundant on photos.google.com!
The query parser we had Blekko could do this as well. It could process 'photos' and 'december' as keywords and use them in a search. It would fail on 'photos last month' for the reasons I mentioned (it didn't really know december was a date it just looked for it to show up in the description or metadata)
That said, Google has done some great stuff in inferring things like units for conversion 10 feet in inches is easily parsed for example as a conversion request.
Google Photos is pretty close.
"photos from december" works fine. "Find photos from decemeber" doesn't.
I can type in "effects photos" and find photos Google applied effects to, which is pretty nifty.
It is probably equivalent to the old game parsers in intelligence, but for a given domain it works pretty well.
They could stand to filter out a lot more words, but it works OK in general. If I type in "photos with a blue sky" it knows to drop "photos with a", photos presumably being redundant on photos.google.com!