Comments on: Google v. Facebook? What We Learn from Twitter.

By: lauraine 2012

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By: Sweton T Fleming

Sweton T Fleming — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:17:32 +0000

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By: BLOGERCISE

BLOGERCISE — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:50:32 +0000

Both have their place. Turning to my "social graph" for information seems like a step backwards in the world of knowledge.

No disrespect to my friends, but unless you are lucky enough to have a friend who is a doctor, a chemist, a vet, an engineer etc etc then they probably aren't going to be all that knowledgeable on the things you want to learn.

I dispute that this is the way we do things outside of the online world, actually we all walk round going "how did we find that out before Google". It is crazy to think we are going to go back to 'Chinese whispers' again!

By: Dış Cephe

Dış Cephe — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:09:35 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:15:38 +0000

@sorunsuzhost Really? It’s how I found out that Michael Jackson was dead. Isn’t that information? It’s also how I found out that a friend of mine is into radio controlled airplanes… something that I was considering as a gift for my son. I ended up exchanging a ton of valuable information with this friend of mine. He even offered to give me one of his older planes, for free! Tell me, how would that have happened via Google search?

By: sorunsuzhost

sorunsuzhost — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:53:13 +0000

Tweets are not “information”, and neither is a Facebook wall.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:08:10 +0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

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By: kraloyun

kraloyun — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:08:33 +0000

@Rick,

FB makes their users stuff open to Google. and we cant do anything.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:24:45 +0000

Michael:

There are two big differences between now and back in the mid-90s:
- the volume of content being created by individual users
- the ease of connecting with friends

Social search allows you to discover knowledge in your connections. Among my friends I probably know the activities of 5-7 friends in a fair amount of depth. But for the other 300 or so people who I'm connected too, I don't know all of their activities.

If I'm thinking of going to Brazil, I would know whether the 5-7 friends had been there. Social search would help me discover if the other 300 had been.

What makes social search even more powerful is that I have the ability to connect with those people and discover information that they haven't published. The mere fact that they had a status update that said "going to brazil" allows me to tap into the knowledge in their head.

I built a prototype of this 2 years ago. Even with 3-4 hardcoded friends and the relatively limited amount of content being posted back then, the results were very compelling.

Of course it won't work for every query -- I just did a search for the roll call on the 2006 voting rights act reauthorization.

But for things like finding doctors, mechanics, vacation destinations, restaurants, etc., social search would be my go to place.

By: dumb

dumb — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:11:09 +0000

@mike
"What if (in addition to simultaneously searching Google and your "friend index") you had an easy, non-intrusive way to notify your friends that you were looking for information about the Oklahoma City public library?"

Mike, do you know what most of the so called 'friends' will end up doing? Guess... They will Google and send you links that they found from googling...hahahaha

So imagine also notifying to your friends and getting those googled responses from them after a week or month....