Social search and the same old problems, Greg Linden, Geeking with Greg (Apr 24)
Exactly so - activities of individuals in tagging will not necessarily improve search. Individuals had already been involved with web pages and links with anchor text. There is still the problem of authortity, quality, and manipulation - maybe more so.
"But the problem remains the same. What information is useful? What is the reliability of that information? And, as slide 14 [referring to a presentation by Yahoo Researcher Prabhakar Raghavan ] suggests, trying to solve these problems in social search probably looks similar to solving them in traditional search, mostly involving propagating usefulness and trust along the associations and links between the pieces of data.
Posted by Gwen at April 26, 2007 12:07 PM