In this discussion, I will argue that there is a place for socially-augmented search, but it will be as a supplement to, not a replacement for, Google.
What happened last week? Obama was inaugurated—that’s pretty big news! Maybe the rest was a hodgepodge of other nonsense?
Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending January 25, 2009:
This was the last week of President Bush’s 8-year term in office. He gave a farewell speech and people have been preparing for the huge inauguration in Washington (tomorrow, at this point). The East Coast was particularly cold—I learned this from my mom, and also from coverage of the US Airways plane that crashed into [...]
Chris, Michael, and I are pleased to announce the launch of a new site today: PublicSentiment.net!
PublicSentiment.net is part of a larger effort to capture public sentiment on the web, but specifically to reveal the spectrum of people’s unedited, raw opinions about certain current affairs. We picked up on this idea during the election when we [...]
In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Eurekster Launches Personalized Social Search – (old story)
Personalized search? The concept has been that by knowing some things about you, a search engine might refine your results to make them more relevant. A teenager searching for music might get different matches than a senior citizen. A man looking [...]
