Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote at 08/05/2011 12:17 AM:
This idea is proposed roughly every 2-3 years for at least 30 years. I am not aware of anyone having made this idea "fly".
If you have a info retrieval method with useful precision&recall, but the barrier to adoption is the user's overhead in invoking the feature... you might help it fly by not requiring user to invoke it.
For general example, something done automatically, context-sensitive, that user can perceive in subtle visual annotations, or by glancing into another part of the window, or something.
For more specific, and potentially quite simple example: your editor/viewer/browser knows what bits of text you're editing or looking at (cursor, what's visible in window, document, movement, maybe even gaze-tracking), and in some little window provides a ranked list of info (perhaps document links/excerpts) it thinks might be relevant at the moment. People including myself have used this approach successfully for IR problems.
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