Comments on: The World Post-Google http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/the_world_post-google.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the_world_post-google Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tony O'Driscoll http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/the_world_post-google.php#comment-24944 Tony O'Driscoll Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:21:02 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/the_world_post-google.php#comment-24944 <p>Think the last sentence here is the most salient. People do not want to search they want to find. When the search engine knows more about the person inputting the keywords it can then present a "Faceted Find"..kind of like Vivisimo,but the folders are based on the profile of the user who interacted with the search service. This is the vision for second generation portals. The person, just like content is tagged which facilitates the brokering and flow of information since the nodes in the network(digital proxies of people's attributes) provide added context to refine the search and thus add more value in what is presented.</p> Think the last sentence here is the most salient. People do not want to search they want to find. When the search engine knows more about the person inputting the keywords it can then present a “Faceted Find”..kind of like Vivisimo,but the folders are based on the profile of the user who interacted with the search service. This is the vision for second generation portals. The person, just like content is tagged which facilitates the brokering and flow of information since the nodes in the network(digital proxies of people’s attributes) provide added context to refine the search and thus add more value in what is presented.

]]> By: standa http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/the_world_post-google.php#comment-24943 standa Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:00:35 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/the_world_post-google.php#comment-24943 <p>Come on the piece wasn't that bad and you're being too dismissve and arrogrant.</p> <p>Here's the key nugget which the writer got right</p> <p>Google is great for finding specific facts in short chunks, but lousy at providing larger context and meaning.</p> <p>And I liked this vignette...</p> <p>For example, Saffo isn't really interested in the stuff that most people look for when they do a Web search. He's one of the premier futurists of Silicon Valley and fondly recalls the days, back in the 1980s and early 1990s, the pre-Web era, when the Internet was the reserve of the technological elite who posted their brilliant thoughts on electronic bulletin boards. Now, everyone from about third grade up has an e-mail address and loiters around the Web as though it's the corner 7-Eleven. The results of a Web search reflect the tastes of a broad swath of ordinary Americans who in some cases are still wearing short pants.</p> <p>"The more people get on the Web, the more the Web becomes the vaster wasteland that is the successor to the vast wasteland of television. I don't care what the majority of people are looking at, because the majority of people are really boring," Saffo says.</p> <p>He needs a better search engine. He needs one that knows that he's a big-brain tech guru and not an eighth-grader with a paper due. <br /> </p> Come on the piece wasn’t that bad and you’re being too dismissve and arrogrant.

Here’s the key nugget which the writer got right

Google is great for finding specific facts in short chunks, but lousy at providing larger context and meaning.

And I liked this vignette…

For example, Saffo isn’t really interested in the stuff that most people look for when they do a Web search. He’s one of the premier futurists of Silicon Valley and fondly recalls the days, back in the 1980s and early 1990s, the pre-Web era, when the Internet was the reserve of the technological elite who posted their brilliant thoughts on electronic bulletin boards. Now, everyone from about third grade up has an e-mail address and loiters around the Web as though it’s the corner 7-Eleven. The results of a Web search reflect the tastes of a broad swath of ordinary Americans who in some cases are still wearing short pants.

“The more people get on the Web, the more the Web becomes the vaster wasteland that is the successor to the vast wasteland of television. I don’t care what the majority of people are looking at, because the majority of people are really boring,” Saffo says.

He needs a better search engine. He needs one that knows that he’s a big-brain tech guru and not an eighth-grader with a paper due.

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