Tag Archives: social search

Do your friends make you smarter? Exploring social interactions in search

Thanks to Chris Messina for filming this video during my 3rd year talk (end-of-year presentation to my department)! The slides are available here. Brief summary: in this talk I present some work that I’ve done (with collaborators at PARC) related to social search, or how social interactions and social resources help individual users during search [...]

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

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.

A demonstration of social search through Delver

I’ve been thinking a lot about what social search is, what it means, does it matter if we all use it to refer to different things? (I highlighted a few of the different ways it’s being used in commercial applications towards the end of this talk I gave at BarCamp in San Diego this weekend.) [...]

CSCW’08 talk on Social Search

Today I gave a talk at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference in San Diego in the Social Sensemaking track. It was called: “Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search” (in collaboration with Ed Chi). My slides are posted here and I’d welcome any further discussion, commentary, or questions on the talk or of [...]

User Needs during Social Search

(This was also posted on the ASC blog.) There has been a lot of buzz around social search in the online tech community, but I am largely disappointed by the new tools and services I’ve encountered. It’s not that these sites are unusable, but that they each seem to take on a different conception of [...]