Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index
by Finnucane on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:23AM
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"Duncan finds analogous anxieties in our Age of Search — the suspicion that by making it ever easier to access information, Google might in fact be making us lazier and dumber, allowing us to glide along the shallows instead of forcing us to venture into the depths. Duncan is less worried. "
Considering the several discussions here about how Google is letting its ad business and other corporate concerns distort search, and how users are trying to get around that to find actually useful indexing, this seems like a fairly naive response.
Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index
by mountainb on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:00AM
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Mainstream search provides easier access to the equivalent of junk mail. Some paid search engines that index actually useful information can be pretty good. But right now Google just gives you the best spam that it can find, and potentially something halfway useful like the digital equivalent of a catalog entry for a book you can buy.
Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index
by steve_coral on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:19AM
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For a fictional analogue to this lovely book, check out Pale Fire by Nabokov. The book begins as ostensibly a long poem but slowly unravels itself in the index and end notes
Considering the several discussions here about how Google is letting its ad business and other corporate concerns distort search, and how users are trying to get around that to find actually useful indexing, this seems like a fairly naive response.
Neeva (freemium. No idea about the quality since it is not available to anyone except those located in the US it seems)
I love useful indexes. I didn't realize there were books written solely about them, though. I'll have to pick this up.
Index, a history of the - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597724 - Sept 2021 (2 comments)