Make Mine Interactive

摘要

I replace my car every 20 years, whether I need to or not. Needless to say, I am on the lagging edge when it comes to new automotive technology. When I first encountered a GPS system in a rental car, I felt like I had landed in an alternate universe ... one in which I would not be getting lost on a distressingly regular basis. Then we added a Prius to our household and now I'm irritated when I walk up to my old Subaru and it doesn't detect that I'm nearby and obligingly unlock itself like the Prius does. I can't believe that my Sube doesn't have a real-time display of my gas mileage, or a camera mounted on the rear bumper for backing up safely. Suddenly my now 7-year-old car seems so last century. It's amazing how quickly we get accustomed to new convenience standards. I don't want to sound ungrateful to our long-time econtent providers; I cannot imagine running my business without the value-added information I can find through them. However, I have taken a few new search interfaces out for a spin, and that familiar old search screen from my tried and true online service is starting to look a bit, well, dated. In my web wanderings, I have come across three finding tools that all offer some really interesting options in terms of planning and executing a search and in reviewing the results. Collectively, they offer some tremendous innovations, and, like that keyless ignition in the Prius, I am starting to wonder when I will see these features in my online standards. (That includes Google as well as the subscription-based resources.)