In the Age of Google...
October 8, 2008
You always have to go back to the question to get the right answer. Just wanted to get that down in writing.
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Hmmm... -- I don't "get it". :S
You've to keep tweaking the search query (question) sometimes indefinitely.
ah: hermeneutics? as in: listening, talking, communications -- and all that jazz...?
Coincidentally, that's what Ask have recently done: http://blog.ask.com/2008/10/its-here-the-ne.html
All John means is "42". ;-)
Thanks for all .
This is powerful because it says that you need to know the question - or phrase it correctly - now, do people always know the right question to ask? Does their question really cover all the contingencies they are looking for? Isn't it the case, after all, that data is just answers in search of a question?
If you know the right question then actually Google (or any other search engine technology) doesn't revolutionise that much - a good researcher framing a proper question could get the right answer pretty readily from an old school books on shelves research library. The two challenges are addressing the much more typical user who just wants to enter a couple of keywords, or more critically, the researcher who has been taught bad habits by their experience with Google in their personal lives.
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