Archive for the 'Search' Category

Searching on the Dash Express

Posted by Brandon Bidlack on April 22nd, 2008 filed in Dash Express, Search

As many reviewers and customers have noted, connected search is one of the more compelling features about the Dash Express. In this post, I’m going to talk more about how search works and what we display to give users the most relevant information that we can.
Like most navigation devices, the Dash Express comes with a [...]

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Video of Dash at Web2.0 Summit

Posted by Mark Williamson on November 8th, 2007 filed in Dash Express, Search

A few weeks ago Rob Currie and I gave a presentation at the Web2.0 Summit where we announced our open content platform. We have been working on getting a video of that presentation and now you can watch the presentation via the YouTube video below. I apologize for the video quality, but this [...]

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Driving with a Dash Express

Posted by Mark Williamson on November 7th, 2007 filed in Dash Express, Search

Yesterday I had the pleasure of giving Brian Lam from Gizmodo a “drive demo” of the Dash Express. We had the chance to show Brian how our open content platform can pull relevant and timely information from across the web directly into your car. When I showed him our Craigslist integration, he was [...]

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Getting your web content in the car!

Posted by Mark Williamson on October 19th, 2007 filed in Industry Issues, Search

This morning Rob Currie and I demonstrated an open content platform that will allow consumers to get the content they want into the car. We showed support for GeoRSS and KML, which allows Dash users to bring all the great web map mashups into the car. We also showed API level integration with [...]

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Looking for an airport?

Posted by Mark Williamson on October 2nd, 2007 filed in Dash Express, Search

Search is a really hard problem. For years and years companies have been trying to perfect web search, largely from the context of a web browser. It turns out that results that might be useful in the context of a browser are not all that useful in context of a the car. [...]

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