Wikia. Paper on Social Information Foraging and Social Search. Anil Dash: How Matt Haughey Beat Google. Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » The role of humans in Goo. Randy Stross wrote an interesting article for the New York Times about search with a human touch, and I wanted to talk about the role of people in Google search. On this post, you get not one but *two* disclaimers. It’s all part of my read-one-disclaimer, get-a-free-disclaimer program! My disclaimers are: - This particular post is entirely my own opinion. - I’m really, really low on sleep. I’m up at Foo Camp 2007 this weekend. This is my first time at Foo Camp, so I stayed up until ~4 a.m. last night talking to people and discovering the crack-like addiction that is the Werewolf game. What is the future of search? - personalization? Suffice it to say that we spend a lot of time thinking about the future of search at Google, and of course other people think about it too.
Social Search: the power of people If you ask an average techie about Google, you’ll hear that we use lots of computers and algorithms. . - PageRank is fundamentally about the hyperlinks that people on the web create. The Human Touch That May Loosen Google’s Grip. The Downside. Publications - Start-Up Unveils.