Re:Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want
by joe_the_user on Thursday March 10, 2011 @07:03PM
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As one of Blekko's founding concepts was that the search experience can be made better by human curation, I choose to interpret it as validation. Not that I expect Google to join in and adopt the "web search bill of rights" anytime soon of course.
I'm not sure if "Human curation" is the concept I'd grope for here.
What I'd like is search that uses a "larger context" - what I've searched-for and accepted/rejected, what those similar to me have searched-for and accepted/rejected etc. Being able to implicitly use a lot of information is crucial because there aren't going to be enough curators to everything ever.
Google is already using an incredible amount of implicit information and I expect them to use more.
What I see opportunity as really, is more like "self-curation" than some finite stable of curators. What would be cool is a system to let me keep my list of likes and search-finds - essentially my entire preference-system - and let me edit and send the whole thing to different search providers as well as to friends.
I'm not sure if "Human curation" is the concept I'd grope for here.
What I'd like is search that uses a "larger context" - what I've searched-for and accepted/rejected, what those similar to me have searched-for and accepted/rejected etc. Being able to implicitly use a lot of information is crucial because there aren't going to be enough curators to everything ever.
Google is already using an incredible amount of implicit information and I expect them to use more.
What I see opportunity as really, is more like "self-curation" than some finite stable of curators. What would be cool is a system to let me keep my list of likes and search-finds - essentially my entire preference-system - and let me edit and send the whole thing to different search providers as well as to friends.