Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google

Re:Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google by stcredzero on Saturday January 01, 2011 @02:38PM (#2058202)

Indeed. For such filtering to work, a significant portion of your friends should be searching the entire network and not just filtering through friends. But this might just work out to an early-adopter/follower divide. Friend network filtering will work better for the followers. The early-adopters/leaders will continue to use other means of search and will feed the friend-network.

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Re:Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google by beoba on Saturday January 01, 2011 @04:38PM (#2058533)

That assumes the same group of people will be the early adopters for everything, from recipes, to gardening tools, to what video card to get. If your peers don't happen to be knowledgeable about what you're seeking, then you're SOL.

Your best bet ends up being to simply include everybody, which improves your chances of finding an expert opinion, regardless of the obscurity of the query.

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Re:Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google by stcredzero on Sunday January 02, 2011 @01:41AM (#2059586)

That assumes the same group of people will be the early adopters for everything

Logically speaking, no it doesn't. Why couldn't a search engine be aware of topic/product areas? Many already are.

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