I don’t think search is dead. It’s going to evolve. The new Bing is a clue of that change. As for Yahoo Answers, I don’t trust them. Just like Wiki any one can post an answer that is popular believe. Even Marina can attest to that.

“For the vast majority, search results more than two weeks old are not needed.” I totally disagree with that.

“How often do you go past the first page of a search result? For most people it is very rare.”

I go several pages deep at times. What make you think this is very rare?

“That’s why there are special sites to give answers like Wiki and many others because Google can’t do it all.”

Google is not a Wiki. If it was they would have Wikioogle.

“Current searches do not answer critical personal or local questions.”

Google was not designed to answer questions. It’s a document search engine to help you find the answers from other sources.

“Timeliness is of essence and the Internet has not dealt with that, or it has tried and it keeps breaking. The search engine is not the answer, yet, but people are the answer.”

Crowd Sourcing is very useful but it’s not the complete answer to the problem. Intelligent software is the key.

“There are massive holes in the simplest of searches that I have done and when I do get an answer, it has taken an hour. I can get a faster answer by dialing 411. I can tell you what happened in the UK today, but tell my where the massive smoke is coming from over the hill and no one has a clue.”

Here’s something else about the internet you might not know of. Not all answers are on the internet. Someone or something must post the information on the internet. There are just somethings you will never find on the internet. Micro blogging i.e. FaceBook and Twitter might give you the answer of why there is smoke over the hill. But I would rather have word from a Fire Marshall or Police Officer that has the facts.
For example there was so shooting on I-5 here in Seattle. There were many rumors of what was going on. It wasn’t till later when the police gave out the facts in the TV news cast.

“For example, Marina discussed the nerd word Twoogle, where someone asks a question on Twitter that could easily have been Googled. One reason people Twoogle is because they hate spending 30 min to an hour to maybe get an answer. It’s easier to Twoogle.”

I must have missed that Twoogle lesson. Humm.
I’ve used twitter before to try to find answers and I get a 60-40 success rate. I ask about if such and such movie is any good I get many answers. It’s hard to find a qualified answer. If I ask someone to explain superposition, I get a very silent feed. Then people send me the first link in google, which I could have done myself. Once again I’m faced with unqualified people to answer my questions. I do much better using google to find blogs or such to find writings, videos, etc to find my answers.

“Twitter is working on many projects that will solve the immediate and local questions and answers.”

I wish they would focus on solving their immediate issues they have with the service first before venturing out on other projects. Besides cloud computing will replace services like twitter, facebook, google wave.

For the vast majority, search results more than two weeks old are not needed. How often do you go past the first page of a search result? For most people it is very rare. That’s why there are special sites to give answers like Wiki and many others because Google can’t do it all.

Current searches do not answer critical personal or local questions. Timeliness is of essence and the Internet has not dealt with that, or it has tried and it keeps breaking. The search engine is not the answer, yet, but people are the answer.

There are massive holes in the simplest of searches that I have done and when I do get an answer, it has taken an hour. I can get a faster answer by dialing 411. I can tell you what happened in the UK today, but tell my where the massive smoke is coming from over the hill and no one has a clue.

For example, Marina discussed the nerd word Twoogle, where someone asks a question on Twitter that could easily have been Googled. One reason people Twoogle is because they hate spending 30 min to an hour to maybe get an answer. It’s easier to Twoogle.

Twitter is working on many projects that will solve the immediate and local questions and answers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2008/10/08/2008-10-08_putting_the_skin_in_pigskin_lingerie_foo.html

http://appshopper.com/sports/lingerie-football-league-photos-video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wus2ltRw64w

I think it’ll be interesting to check out with all the bs going on elsewhere :smile:
Boy, don’t know if M’s trippin on some of my posts tonite going from a taboo subject of politics to women playing football in lingerie, but i’m kinda stumped on coming up with a word or phrase request right now.

Btw You’re right about “Loose Lips, Sink Ships” I did look it up and it is a Navy slang term to clue someone to keep their lips shut when it comes to classified info, but me pulling it from a AC/DC tune I thought maybe it had a sexual innuendo to it. :mrgreen:

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Regarding: What do I mean by terminated it?
When I wrote my comment above, I noticed that my
comment was in bold. I preceded my comment with the
bold termination tag </b> and my comment became normal. Of course, that was only for that particular page refresh, and as you pointed out there was a glitch.