Today’s web-based search engines perform well when searchers know what they are looking for, but fall short for learning, decision making, and other complex mental activities that take place over time.
In its March issue, Computer, the IEEE Computer Society’s flagship magazine, explores efforts by the research community and search engine companies to go beyond search, designing and implementing systems that meet information seekers’ broader requirements.
According to the guest editors, today’s search engines are augmenting our memories, presumably freeing us to focus more mental effort on interpreting and using information to learn and make decisions. The easier access to information becomes, the greater our expectations for ubiquitous access in all kinds of situations.
Read the March issue of Computer: http://libcat.qut.edu.au/search~S7?/tComputer/tcomputer/1%2C418%2C478%2CB/frameset&FF=tcomputer&2%2C%2C2
Posted by Daniel Tunkelang on 26/03/2009 at 8:55 pm
A few of the papers are available without a subscription:
http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/03/17/precision-and-recall/
http://nopain2.org/archives/000123.html