Mummy are we there yet? In the past few years I’ve written couple of posts about the opportunities and challenges of search through people (rather than through better algorithm). Couple of quick wins I had recently through my network reminded me to revisit this topic as the last post I wrote was pre-twitter/facebook. Quick recap [...]
Few recent search frustrations reminded me that with all the massive development in social media (read, the internets), search functionalities feel somehow legging behind. I’m sure Google, yahoo and Microsoft are pouring millions on development but that doesn’t (yet) change the feeling that it’s time for search to be smarter. Couple of weeks ago Udy [...]
Few months back I wrote about the future of search and how I wholeheartedly believe that until the idea of the semantic web will take off, in the heavily cluttered www, search through people is 100 times better than the best algorithm. Recently Google Answer has been shut down and as far as I know, [...]