Human filtering versus search engines

October 7, 2009 by Colby
Filed under: Social Media (General), Teaching 

Sometimes you are looking for information or photos and Google just doesn’t cut it.   Most search engines still lack a semantic quality (machine understanding of language and context to improve search results), but social media gives us a network to help us find what we need.  Here is a great example of this: http://ideasandthoughts.org/2009/10/05/when-search-isnt-good-enough/

Our networks are in essence an extension of our own minds; they can help us zero in on what we need in a huge amount of information, give us ideas that we haven’t thought of ourselves, and save us time and frustration in the process.

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