Comments on: The changing nature of Web search

By: Chinmay Kulkarni

Chinmay Kulkarni — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:09:55 +0000

@prateek In a way, the Internet you see is already a function of not only the search engine you use, but also where you are (localization) and who you are (personalization).

This trade-off (staying-in-control vs convenience) is a general problem I see with “intelligent systems”: it would definitely be interesting to see which one wins out in this space.

@sunalini No, I don’t think having multiple params visible to users is “a good thing”: very often, one never knows which factors one wants to tweak (and is definitely not an expert at it). This is also the general trend in search engines: no search engine shows a “score” of how well a page matched a search anymore (Yahoo used to show stars once). More here: http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/sui_ch4_query_specification.html#section_4.4

By: prateek

prateek — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:02:56 +0000

Would be really interesting to see how search engines adjust to the web with insufficient links.
Would increase reliability on search engines way too much, and the internet you ’see’ would be a function of the search engine you use (assuming there exist alternatives to Google).

By: sunalini

sunalini — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:23:43 +0000

I wanted to locate an NCAER report, and its still buried out there somewhere.
its time consuming, its irritating, and its stupid.
Maybe what could help would be the choice to search based on certain parameters all available to the consumer-like for research-greatest number of hits, available reports, companies involved(and their resources,etc etc), job openings, and whatever else thats applicable.

All subject to one word-maybe.