Hoosgot

http://gregcohn.com/blog/uncategorized/2008/07/social-search-generally-isnt/ asks Hoosgot,

In attending this SDForum SearchSIG event tuesday night, I was keen to learn what Wikia, FriendFeed, Mahalo, and Facebook were doing about social search. As it turns out - and as I pointed out during the Q&A to lively discussion (which I think was recorded but doesn’t seem to be posted yet) - the answer is nothing much. My premise in making that comment was that social search be defined as a search deriving its results from “a statistically meaningful sample of people meaningfully related to me”. I gave as an example Zagat’s guide to NYC restaurants, which, back in the day, was exactly that - a usefully large group of, mostly, actual foodies. Mahalo, imho, is simply an extension …

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