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Dumb search

Here’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while.
Most papers in the Information Retrieval field begin with a sentence along the lines of “In this era of information overload the need for better search mechanisms is evident.”. Or something. Indeed there is an information overload. This situation is actually worse because it isn’t any kind [...]

Posted 10 August 2008 § rants ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

When there’s no knowledge

People are raving (ranting?) about www.cuil.com and I just have to do it too.
For me it’s simple: search engines can help you find the stuff you think is relevant but not give you stuff they thinks is relevant.

Posted 10 August 2008 § rants ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: