Comments on: Search is Not Dead, Yet http://alexiablogs.com/2008/04/29/search-is-not-dead-yet/ geek is good Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:57:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Facebook Search - Again http://alexiablogs.com/2008/04/29/search-is-not-dead-yet/#comment-10207 Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Facebook Search - Again Mon, 12 May 2008 11:34:08 +0000 http://alexiablogs.com/?p=442#comment-10207 [...] people and allowing them to share data and content but search is still essential and it’s never going to die. Digg it! | Reddit | Del.icio.us | Stumble Upon | [...] [...] people and allowing them to share data and content but search is still essential and it’s never going to die. Digg it! | Reddit | Del.icio.us | Stumble Upon | [...]

]]> By: Damien Mulley http://alexiablogs.com/2008/04/29/search-is-not-dead-yet/#comment-10139 Damien Mulley Mon, 05 May 2008 09:33:58 +0000 http://alexiablogs.com/?p=442#comment-10139 Discovery does not trump search. They are not the same thing and do not solve the same issues. More discovery will mean more searching. Saying search is dead is like saying cheese is dead because whipped cream came about. You discover buried treasure. You search the treasure trove you discovered. You discover this fantastic Italian cafe, you search the menu or the counter for food. Discovery will unearth more information. There's already too much information to handle or process. Connecting with people may enhance search but relying on connecting to people with all their inherent biases is damaging for the randomness that search can bring. Search dies when humans know everything and have enough memory to retain all data in an easily retrievable way. Social networks are weak technological implementations of our real relationships with people and web search is a very very rough version of the constant drive to discover AND sort AND catalog knowledge. Discovery does not trump search. They are not the same thing and do not solve the same issues. More discovery will mean more searching. Saying search is dead is like saying cheese is dead because whipped cream came about.

You discover buried treasure. You search the treasure trove you discovered. You discover this fantastic Italian cafe, you search the menu or the counter for food.

Discovery will unearth more information. There’s already too much information to handle or process. Connecting with people may enhance search but relying on connecting to people with all their inherent biases is damaging for the randomness that search can bring.

Search dies when humans know everything and have enough memory to retain all data in an easily retrievable way. Social networks are weak technological implementations of our real relationships with people and web search is a very very rough version of the constant drive to discover AND sort AND catalog knowledge.

]]> By: Niall Larkin http://alexiablogs.com/2008/04/29/search-is-not-dead-yet/#comment-10042 Niall Larkin Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:24:00 +0000 http://alexiablogs.com/?p=442#comment-10042 Love the new look on the site. I agree on habits being hard to break. And that rapid adoption of something new is expediated when it connects with, empowers and coevolves with existing, hard-wired deeply engrained habits. The more primal the better. The more universal the better. Love the new look on the site. I agree on habits being hard to break. And that rapid adoption of something new is expediated when it connects with, empowers and coevolves with existing, hard-wired deeply engrained habits. The more primal the better. The more universal the better.

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