There were a couple of seemingly contradictory developments today. Would love to hear the group’s thoughts on this :
1 – Microsoft + Facebook – leverage your friend’s recommendations, posts, comments to help prioritize results for searches you make
2 – behavioural economics – how we often make (economical) choices not always in our best interests.
Questions :
If friends care about you, how often would you listen to them 🙂
If search is for information, as opposed to data, doesn’t the quality of your network become important ? Therefore, isn’t measuring this quality important ?
Would we prefer to interpret the data, and therefore should “social search” be relegated to just presenting us the raw data points, than just return results from our network?
Would you treat a recommendation / search ranking differently if someone in your network weighted it?
Can’t the questions you’d seek of your network be resolved by simple polls, like Facebook already does?
Isn’t it smart(er) to be able to specify specialists in your network? I have people in my network I consider experts in playing music, in game design, in psychology, etc. Wouldn’t I just call them than search?
Who likes quora? I still often end up having to interpret responses and make my own decision ? What’s it therefore lacking?