“Human powered Search, Question and Answers Services on the Web”
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Simo Amtoun
2012 search predictions: the experts' viewEconsultancy (blog)I've been asking a number of search experts to look back to last year, as well as giving their predictions and hopes for 2012.
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An overview of Search tools on the Web, how they evolved and how the future is looking. 
I myself will continue to do ask and answer questions on Quora, as well as to search, which I do often. My belief was that Quora would grow into a repository of knowledge around topics, a mashup of Wikipedia, Blogger, and ... 
Google will not be the primary way to search forever. 
A directory of search engines social media and curation tools and research on the same topics (Social Search refers to crowdsourced content like Question and Answer platforms. Are we missing any? |
RT @xpatmatt: I just got a super good deal on a flight using a new human-powered flight search called Flight Fox. It saved me... 
Mahalo popularized the term "human powered search" when they launched just over a year ago. Many of the pitches we get still use that term as part of their positioning. Many of them are bootstrapped, so the price of entry is clearly low.
2012 search predictions: the experts' viewEconsultancy (blog)I've been asking a number of search experts to look back to last year, as well as giving their predictions and hopes for 2012. 
Social Search Series: This summer I am... 
An overview of the startups in the category formally known as Q&A... 
A Google patent application published in early May explains why Google might start showing social answers in Google search results. The basic premise is that some types of questions are best answered by library type results, ... |
