tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-720931639614381992008-05-29T04:48:00.000Z2008-05-29T04:59:34.480ZA great article on where search MAY be heading - <a title="Permanent Link to Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search" href="http://futureofsearch.federatedmedia.net/archives/15" rel="bookmark">Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search</a><br /><br />I've been intrigued by the notion of human search and the site <a href="http://www.mahalo.com/">Mahalo</a> was/is of interest. The main interest has stemmed from the following:<br /><ul><li>I feel the tweaking of search algorithms can only take you so far.</li><li>Most users will only visit the first page of results.</li><li>Given the experience within TRIP we have a pretty good idea what would constitute a good set of results.</li><li>We have some experience in this area. A while back (so not up-to-date) we created a number of reviews e.g. <a href="http://statins.blog.tripdatabase.com/">statins</a> or <a href="http://kneeoa.blog.tripdatabase.com/">knee osteoarthritis</a>.</li></ul><p>The big problem is scale. We could create human-powered search results for the top 100 searches - but that's scratching the surface. Perhaps I'll do some mock-up and get users to 'vote' to see which they prefer. </p><p>Watch this space.</p><p> </p>Jon Brasseynoreply@blogger.com