I've just finished reading John Battelle's book "The Search" - I guess I must be a complete search geek as I couldn't put it down. I've meet a number of the people John talked about over the years so it made for even more compulsive reading. Fantastic read for anyone even vaguely interested in search or the Internet.
One quote stood out in particular:
Circling back to our goal of perfect search, imagine that nearly every subject worthy of some critical mass of human intent-from archaeology to automobiles, zoology to pop music-receives a GlobablSpec-like vertical search treatments, or perhaps a blog ecology that serves as a useful proxy. Then imagine......hundreds or thousands of domains specific sites. It's not such a leap to imagine, in the end, that we get closer to perfect search through the concerted effort of thousands of smaller sites making their domain more perfect.
This is exactly the aim of swicki's! Give people with domain expertise the ability to create a search engine for their community and allow them to shape and improve the results.
The current product is very much our first guess at the ideal tools for publishing a search engine and they will continue to evolve based on your feedback so keep it coming....
Comments (1)
You are not alone. I felt the same way. I couldn't put the book down since I picked it up.
Posted by Manny | December 20, 2005 10:38 AM