Search intermediaries
Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person. By Brendan I. Koerner, Wired (Mar 24) It’s the overload problem - how to deal with rss feeds and screenfuls of search results? Have people intermediate. + Brijit - 8 employees sift through 100 sources to select the stories and produce 100-word abstracts of both online and offline content and then score them for importance. + Mahalo - volunteers create the information capsules + Google’s Knol - “In December, Google announced tha
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