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Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect

22 Nov 2009 – 16:09

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on November 12, 2009, as a guest author. With Google’s Social Search experiment, Bing’s integration with Twitter, and with Yahoo!’s partnership with One Riot—it’s clear that social search has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if [...]

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Why there’s nothing to fear in social search

28 Oct 2009 – 12:32

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on Oct 27, 2009, as a guest author. Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this “social search” would entail, and some expressed [...]

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Social search panel at SXSW’10

17 Aug 2009 – 19:34

Sanjay Kairam and I submitted a beginner’s panel proposal on social search to SXSW’10. But in order to present the panel, we need to get a lot of community votes! Even if you’re not going to SXSW next year, you can vote and your vote will count! Click here to vote! A short description of [...]

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Why social search won’t topple Google (anytime soon)

30 Jan 2009 – 0:22

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.

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If Powerset isn’t on Wikipedia, does that mean it doesn’t exist?

2 Nov 2007 – 22:50

Powerset is not on Wikipedia! I thought Wikipedia had the answer to everything, no? So with no Wikipedia entry, then Powerset must be, what, made-up? In fact some might claim exactly that… But not so, and I can prove it with my new account on PowerLabs! PowerLabs is a collection of demos of Powerset’s technology [...]

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