Comments on: Social Search Has Potential, But Not Without Problems

By: aviation121

aviation121 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:33:48 +0000

i am agree with u,..

By: data recovery

data recovery — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:21:56 +0000

I like social media and its dynamic search tool

By: Scott Purcell

Scott Purcell — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:49:07 +0000

You do not make any sense.

By: Alek Tenerowicz

Alek Tenerowicz — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:10:20 +0000

There is the possibility that the potential for slight or gross inaccuracy is the very element that will make those answers more “fresh” vs. Google. Accurate and detailed answers delivered via an automatic mechanism don’t spark much counterpoint or rebuttal, whereas a slightly inaccurate answer might do just that. In addition, some lack of accuracy can spur a little unanticipated adventure…

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:18:31 +0000

@mobile user: Completely agree, neither concept works perfectly. Finding a middle ground between the two is what will evolve in my opinion. When Google and the other big players enter the social search realm, they’ll be able to compliment their existing engines and have the subsequent reach already in place.

By: Mobile User

Mobile User — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:13:49 +0000

Frankly I don’t see how anything depending on content fueled by “goodwill of the users” is going to work. Wikipedia does it but they certainly take the library approach. I don’t see an easy way to get quality real time information from a village of people motivated only by goodwill. Yahoo Answers sort of does this but it takes days to get an answer, and 90 % of the answers you get are worthless. I am not very happy with search based totally on computational algorithms either. I want a mix where users can easily flag bad results for every one else.