What's the Big Deal With Social Search? - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Sep 08
  

  Ed H Chi

  social search tools are internet wayfinding services informed by human judgement.
  
  Wayfinding, because they're not strictly search engines in the sense that most people know them. And human judgement means that at least one, but more likely dozens, hundr

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• 07 Mar 08
  

  sreitshamer

  metamap socialsearch

• 14 Nov 07
  

  Meredith Farkas

  week6

• 04 Aug 07
  

  Michel Bauwens

  Social search is garnering a lot of attention these days, but despite all the hoopla it's not likely to displace traditional algorithmic search any time soon.

  P2P-Search P2P

• 25 Jul 07
  

  Bibliofusion Pierre Chicoine

  formation_documentaire engins_de_recherche communication_sociale

• 16 Jul 07
  

  the_librarian

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• 17 Mar 07
  

  Gabriela Grosseck

  social_search

• 28 Jan 07
  

  kanter

  socialsearch

• 13 Nov 06
  

  Jackie

  socialsearch whatis

  • Wayfinding, because they're not strictly search engines in the sense that most people know them. And human judgement means that at least one, but more likely dozens, hundreds or more people have "consumed" the content and have decided it's worthy enough to recommend to others.
  • Because PageRank is relying on the collective judgement of webmasters linking to other content on the web. Links, in essence, are positive votes by the webmaster community for their favorite sites.
  • The web lacks what librarians call a "controlled vocabulary," a set of terms that have specific, unambiguous meanings that can be used in a uniform, consistent fashion by everyone tagging web content. Without this controlled vocabulary, tagging ultimately remains a chaotic, messy process.
  • Social search takes many forms, ranging from simple shared bookmarks or tagging of content with descriptive labels to more sophisticated approaches that combine human intelligence with computer algorithms.
  • Another factor is human laziness.
  • Another problem arises with tagging.
  • It simply means that people-mediated search will never be as comprehensive as algorithmic search.
  • Fundamentally, no matter how many people get involved with bookmarking, tagging, voting or otherwise highlighting web content, the scale and scope of the web means that most content will be unheralded by social search efforts. The web is simply growing too quickly for humans to keep up with it.
    
  • Social search as it's evolving today incorporates both automated software as well as human judgments about the nature of web content. That's what makes social search intriguing—and fundamentally flawed, at least at this point.
  • algorithmic search engines, which rely on automated software based crawlers and indexing systems, are social search systems to a degree—after all, the software is written by people and incorporates judgments about quality, relevance and importance of web sites.
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    But that word "informed" can mean many things. In its broadest sense in this context, informed means "influenced," and in the best of all possible worlds this influence is helpful, thoughtful and wholesome.
  • social search tools are internet wayfinding services informed by human judgement.

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• 02 Sep 06
  

  Susie Goodwin

  oct6 socialsearch social web2.0

• 31 Aug 06
  

  Social Discovery

• 30 Aug 06
  

  Riina Vuorikari

  search

  • Social search is garnering a lot of attention these days, but despite all the hoopla it's not likely to displace traditional algorithmic search any time soon.  What is social search? There isn't even a good definition, because just about everyone who's doing some form of social search is trying a different approach. Simply put, social search tools are internet wayfinding services informed by human judgement.
• 28 Aug 06
  
• 21 Aug 06
  

  Arne van Elk

  Web web 2.0 social bookmarking contentsavers

• 18 Aug 06
  

  Matt Maldre

  web2.0 print

• 16 Aug 06
  

  Social search is garnering a lot of attention these days, but despite all the hoopla it's not likely to displace traditional algorithmic search any time soon.

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  Ratcatcher

  "Fundamentally, no matter how many people get involved with bookmarking, tagging, voting or otherwise highlighting web content, the scale and scope of the web means that most content will be unheralded by social search efforts."

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  blendedlibrarian

  overview of the concept of social search

  social search collaboration google web 2.0

  • What is social search? There isn't even a good definition, because just about everyone who's doing some form of social search is trying a different approach. Simply put, social search tools are internet wayfinding services informed by human judgement.   Wayfinding, because they're not strictly search engines in the sense that most people know them. And human judgement means that at least one, but more likely dozens, hundreds or more people have "consumed" the content and have decided it's worthy enough to recommend to others.

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