[Thinking Cap Question]: Think of a world that never was and ask why not

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

[[[From time to time, I will send "thinking cap" questions on the class blog. The idea is that you
respond to the question with your thoughts on the blog (posted as a comment to the question). 
This will count towards "participation" credit, but also allows you to share your class-related ideas with 
other folks in the list. 

As for how often you should feel compelled to respond vs. how deep your thoughts should be, I would use Woody 
Allen's philosophy on quantity vs. quality, expounded in the context of a slightly different situation (start at min 3:30)]]]

Here is the first thinking cap. 
Post your answers to this "homework 1" question on the blog, so we can perhaps aggregate/discuss:


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Think of and list 3 queries (or activities) that you would like to do on the
Web that the current day search engines (e.g. Google) don't quite
support. 

A quote to get you inspired:

 "Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that
     never were and say why not?" 
                         -(Mis)attributed to Robert Kennedy
                             who paraphrased  Bernard Shaw

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post away
Rao


ps: David Bendit is the first to accept the invitation to the class blog. That kind of enthusiasm is usually grounds for either an A+ in the course or a piece of yummy candy (straight from the candy mountain).