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• 10 Apr 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  Clay Shirky was right when he emphasized "filtering" in that WorldChanging interview. But as Kristina Grifantini, the MIT Tech Review blogger, puts it, is "hand-holding" during search really the way to go? (I think NOT.)

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  • Mark Moran, the CEO of Dulcinea Media of New York, presented a Web search engine the company launched last year. The engine's findings are based on editorially reviewed content and links. Taglined "the Librarian of the Internet," findingDulcinea.com is a good idea in theory. According to Moran, users are inundated with information and often don't get what they're really looking for. "Internet search engines are powered by math-based algorithms--ones that lack the judgment and adaptability of the human mind," he says.
  • While this hand-holding portal to the Internet might be appealing to people like my mom, who doesn't have an e-mail account and just recently learned to Google, the site still has gaps in many subject topics. That's not surprising--how can a group of 30 people write guides and find good links to every single subject?

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