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Augmented Reality. Rpg. Programming. Yahoopipes. Semantic Web. Search 4.0: Social Search Engines & Putting Humans Back In Searc. Previously I’ve covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into “regular” web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be used to refine search results. The Search Evolution So Far Before going ahead, let me summarize what I covered in my past article, in terms of how search engines have changed over time to create and rank the results you get when doing a search: Search 1.0 (1996): Pages ranked using “on-the-page” criteriaSearch 2.0 (1998): Pages ranked using “off-the-page” criteriaSearch 3.0 (2007): Vertical search results blended into regular search results The evolution above is not perfect. For one thing, some “Search 3.0″ blending started to happen years before 2007.

It’s just that in 2007, I felt all the major search engines made the leap into Search 3.0 in a significant way. Search 4.0: The Human Factor Onward to Search 4.0! Google: Search 4.0 Gets Personal. TMRAP — Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol. Huge Ideas about Innovation. GoogleWave. 101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School. TagsCloud - Browse your tags precisely. About TagsCloud TagsCloud is an interactive visualisation inspired from del.icio.us own tags cloud. It will enable you to have an overview of all your tags, and interactively determine the relations between them. What is special is that you can filter and re-arrange tags according to the number of posts that were tagged, and according to their connexion to the selected tags.

TagsCloud is intended to be a tool for precisely selecting certain tags depending on your search criteria. By using filters, you will be able to get very quickly to the tags you need. Using TagsCloud TagsCloud represents all your tags at once, sorted by alphabetical order. By moving the cursor on the tag cloud, you will see the tag under your cursor as focused (represented in green), and related tags will turn blue and appear bigger.

You can select tags by clicking on them, and as with SpaceNav, a red label will appear in the status bar (at the bottom of the screen). The F**k It Way. TMRAP — Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol.