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To Search Smarter, Find a Person?
Svonkie writes "Brendan Koerner reports in Wired Magazine that a growing number of ventures are using people, rather than algorithms, to filter the Internet's wealth of information. These ventures have a common goal: to enhance the Web with the kind of critical thinking that's alien to software but that comes naturally to humans. 'The vogue for human curation reflects the growing frustration Net users have with the limits of algorithms. Unhelpful detritus often clutters search results, thanks to online publishers who have learned how to game the system.'"
...for food?
I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
I agree that to some degree it is a generation gap. However, there are plenty of people among the younger generations who don't know how to do anything more than basic searching. When I use boolean operators on Google when in the company of friends, they are baffled. The rise in computing means that the computer has become a basic appliance, but people who really know how to hack more than the most common uses will always be a minority.
"Insane Google-fu" can be put on my resume under "skills".