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You’ll Keep on Searching March 4, 2007

Posted by Matthew Woolums in Articles/Videos.
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Is Search Broken? Tom Foremski wrote an interesting article for Silicon Valley Watcher. It is an interesting exploration about some of the current problems with searching. The article reminded me of a book I read recently called Ambient Findability, by Peter Morville. Part of the book describes why we’ll probably never know just how accurate search engines like Google are due to the large data sets involved, and yet we trust it with our day-to-day searching all the time.

As teachers we are focused on providing our students with skills to validate sources of information, but we all fall into the Google-goo of accepting whatever our favorite search engine offers up to us.

By the way, the title of this post comes from a Steve Winwood song. I found the lyrics here:
http://www.lyricallegend.co.uk/songs.php?artist=steve%20winwood&title=you’ll%20keep%20on%20searching

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2007/03/is_search_broke.php

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