Comments on: Social Impact of Search? http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/11/18/social-impact-of-search/ paglia's thoughts: "one to negative one" and some noise in between Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:04:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lou Paglia http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/11/18/social-impact-of-search/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Lou Paglia Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:21:06 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/11/18/social-impact-of-search/#comment-218 Jim, very interesting find regarding the Wired article. Completely agree that it does make you reflect on how much you base your "knowledge" or generalize on certain topic simply based on a little bit of information. And search results are just that, a look into a particular topic and not a complete look, and depending on the person searching, it may not even be a good look. If you do not know about a topic, logic would dictate that you don't know what you are looking for necessarily, that in itself does not bode well for getting a holistic picture returned to you about that topic via a search engine. Jim, very interesting find regarding the Wired article. Completely agree that it does make you reflect on how much you base your “knowledge” or generalize on certain topic simply based on a little bit of information. And search results are just that, a look into a particular topic and not a complete look, and depending on the person searching, it may not even be a good look. If you do not know about a topic, logic would dictate that you don’t know what you are looking for necessarily, that in itself does not bode well for getting a holistic picture returned to you about that topic via a search engine. ]]> By: Jim Muntone http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/11/18/social-impact-of-search/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Jim Muntone Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:26:29 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/11/18/social-impact-of-search/#comment-217 You know, Uncle Rupert said something similar in Wired in 2006, though his comment was that (I'm paraphrasing) "all this social stuff would have the same impact as the printing press." It's nice to see the printing press finally getting the kudos it deserves. But anyhow... It's a shame, but, as someone who thought high school (albeit briefly) regurgitating the first three links on a google search is pretty much exactly what passes for good "research" these days unless you force your kids to dig deeper into a given topic. So, yes, I think I am saying that the social impact of search is probably tied in closely with that saying about "a little knowledge being dangerous." You know, Uncle Rupert said something similar in Wired in 2006, though his comment was that (I’m paraphrasing) “all this social stuff would have the same impact as the printing press.”

It’s nice to see the printing press finally getting the kudos it deserves. But anyhow…

It’s a shame, but, as someone who thought high school (albeit briefly) regurgitating the first three links on a google search is pretty much exactly what passes for good “research” these days unless you force your kids to dig deeper into a given topic.

So, yes, I think I am saying that the social impact of search is probably tied in closely with that saying about “a little knowledge being dangerous.”

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