http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/nlothian/2006/09/20/danny-sullivan-why-search-sucks-you-wont-fix-it-the-way-you-think/ Nick's Education.au Weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:26:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/nlothian/2006/09/20/danny-sullivan-why-search-sucks-you-wont-fix-it-the-way-you-think/#comment-3 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:23:52 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/nlothian/2006/09/20/danny-sullivan-why-search-sucks-you-wont-fix-it-the-way-you-think/#comment-3 The old ideas about making search more relevant - such as clustering - are being taken up in new ways. Tag clouds and metadata clouds are clustering, but clustering created by a user community rather than by an algorithm. Already I'm finding tag clouds, and the associated 'networks' in delicious useful as other people who save the same kinds of resources that I do, lead me to ones that are also useful. In other words, someone with the same interests has done the search for me and found a resource useful enough to save. This is one of brilliant manifestations of the web - the hive mind at work. The old ideas about making search more relevant - such as clustering - are being taken up in new ways. Tag clouds and metadata clouds are clustering, but clustering created by a user community rather than by an algorithm. Already I’m finding tag clouds, and the associated ‘networks’ in delicious useful as other people who save the same kinds of resources that I do, lead me to ones that are also useful. In other words, someone with the same interests has done the search for me and found a resource useful enough to save. This is one of brilliant manifestations of the web - the hive mind at work.

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