Re: Limitations of Google Search

[Alexandra Vance <alix.vance@gmail.com>]

Content curation may be the next wave, Joe. Search results 
filtered by the crowd may be adequate for some. But, there will 
always be those who seek more and better. Why not up the ante by 
not only filtering and cleaning up the results (by subject) but 
also adding context, via low cost human intervention? This is 
very much in the vein of curated search meets lib-guides. We're 
getting there ...

Regards, Alix Vance

On Jan 20, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com> wrote:

> People are beginning to pile on Google.  See this article from
> CNN online:
>
> http://bit.ly/ePlN9y
>
> The issue here is the amount of spam in Google searches.  The
> author posits that "curated" search will supplant Google's
> algorithmic model.
>
> Maybe so, but I wish the crowdsourced curators the author speaks
> of were information professionals and not just anybody with a
> Twitter account.  I remain uncomfortable with having specialized
> material (e.g., research literature) curated by nonspecialists.
>
> Joe Esposito