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Internet as a Social Ally
How do people use the Internet to solve problems? We find that a significant portion of online Americans turn to the Internet at times because it seems to fulfill their needs more readily and thoroughly than the people in their community network do. We present evidence of when people use the Internet versus seeking the assistance of friends and family and possible reasons for this behavior. This research demonstrates how, to what extent, when and why the Internet supplements people's lives.
Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar 2008
This looks like a really interesting Seminar (organized by IBM Hailfa Research Lab), including discussions of social search, sensemaking, and discovery.
Mechanical Hype « The Alter Egozi
Is Aardvark really a social search engine if it outsources your search queries to random people?
Augmented Social Cognition: CSCW2008 Paper on "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search"
A teaser for our paper on social search (written by Ed Chi).
Official Google Blog: The future of search
Marisa Mayer talks about using location, natural language (and voice), mobile media, and social networks to personalize search in the next 10 years.
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s impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next 10 years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked 10 of our top experts this very question, and over the next three weeks we will pre
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Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it
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Internet Activities (PEW Internet survey)
This is an interesting account of online user behaviors as reported by several PEW Internet survey studies over the last few years. Email & web search have highest penetration (+90%). Watching a video with YouTube or Google Video is also pretty common
Ex-Googlers working on stealth social search
"A former product lead of Google News is quietly working on a new social search service he started with the help of two other Google refugees. "
How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It - Faceboogle - Google vs. Facebook - Popular Mechanics
The larger the Web grows, the more important search becomes, right? That’s probably so, and as a note of clarification, he changed his statement slightly to say, “Search, as we know it, is dead.” What he means is that, with the rise of social networking s
Social Search and Networking Site Adds Political Campaign Features - Associated Content
- an article about how searchles' unique combo of social search + networking (plus video editing & streaming capability) can help deliver targeted political campaign content to a specific set of users. - bmevans on 2007-08-24
Social search has a brand new contender - Diigo
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Diigo promotes itself as an online social research and "social annotation" tool, allowing users to:
"Collect, share and interact on online information from anywhere". By letting users quickly create their own comment on sites as well as highlight, clip or make sticky-notes for webpages, and providing access to organic search or their own social search results, which can be adjusted to suite the users preferences, Diigo has created a service with several interesting resource sharing and community promotion features. - bmevans on 2007-08-01
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