mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 22 2008 | google, community, search, technology
I do think search + community could work together well (duh). However, I think some aspects of Google's implementation are confusing. And, I'm surprised Google didn't launch it as an experimental feature first.
Specific complaints:
1) Promote/Remove: I don't really get the value. If there is value, it is certainly not immediately obvious. Does promoting it just affect me, or does it affect everybody? What if I click remove, and the underlying page changes to the point that it now might be valuable? I just want Google to do the right thing without me having to train it.
2) I have a "Note This" and "Comment" links at the bottom of my search results. That "feels" a little redundant.Also, I wonder why Google just didn't keep the Star/Share metaphors that they use on their other products.
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Initial review look very positive.
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Another insightful post from SmoothSpan, this time on Microsoft and search.
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We had Blair Underwood when I graduated.
Quoted: It was Schmidt's second honorary degree in as many days. On Sunday, he received one at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he delivered a similar speech.
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- sung - Nov 22 2008
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.i dinked around with the 'promote / remove' feature as well. felt that the remove feature did the opposite of what i felt it should. i would remove a search results and it would appear at the bottom more prominently asking me if i really wanted to remove these items. so instead of removing / demoting these search results they actually made me take a closer look at them.
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