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Folk search engines
There is little room for randomness in exploring the vast amount of information actually available to us. This is deliberate. Google and others’ stated mission is to reduce this vast complexity. Their less trumpeted goal is to profit from it, at the expense of our own potential for random encounters, and thereby for our own evolution.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
There are tens of thousands of people sharing insights on a long-tail of topics, but their content is buried in the deep corners of the interwebs, found only by chance, and consumed in fleeting social media feeds that strip context and discourage reflection.
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Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
However, I don’t think it’s right to say that Google search completely sucks . A lot of things we search for now, we take for granted. For example, searching for the nearest cafe that is open right now, getting directions to an unfamiliar place. As the Yellow Pages, Google is great. I often jump off Duck Duck Go if I want to find more information a... See more
Elizabeth TaiIn Essays • Is the Internet really broken?
How might you help people find new things on the internet? How might you give new things on the internet a meaningful audition, without turning it all into a game that can (and will) be hacked and mastered?