Comments on: A demonstration of social search through Delver

By: Bootstrapping Social Search « The Alter Egozi

Bootstrapping Social Search « The Alter Egozi — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:05:39 +0000

[...] 22, 2008 · No Comments As a followup on Brynn’s review of Delver, I’ve had an interesting exchange with Lachlan Hardy, where Lachlan expressed his [...]

By: brynn

brynn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:26:38 +0000

Oh, is that going to be in Israel? What a shame! (I’d have loved to attend…)

It’s been enlightening to share some experiences with you these past few days. I have never tried to implement a social search engine—I don’t know what the technological challenges are, but they will be important for me to consider in my work. Thank you!

By: Ofer Egozi

Ofer Egozi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:10:20 +0000

Brynn, I couldn’t have phrased it better myself… your experience is exactly what we’re trying to create, of trusted and relevant results from your network. It’s a great promise, and surely a major factor in the future of search, but also an immense technological effort – you need a very large coverage of the social graph and the content attached to it, and the graph-based ranking function is practically different for every user (rather than, say, a single consolidated PageRank). So we still have a lot of work to do before we can deliver this experience in all of your searches, but we’re heading there.
I’d actually be giving a talk on exactly these issues next month, unfortunately not in your area
Thanks for the review!