In the past week I had the opportunity to visit some friends at the Media Labs at MIT. In speaking with them I proposed a new paradigm in search that of using social communities as a means to search in a more meaningful way. What I mean is that if you were to build a search engine over a collection of social networks similar to Ning (which has over 1 million networks active now) . The reason that I say this is that in my work in social networking I am a member of over 40 communities of networks, and in certain instances I find that when I want an answer to a question I just send out the query to the right community and get a high quality answer and do not have to traverse a collection of links that have a more generic answer to my question. Now I will concede that if I was looking up the hours a particular business was open I would not want to bother the communities that I participate in but if the question if on a more complicated nature then I would. So if we were to look out at the vast sea of social networks out there as a repository of knowledge that we are a part of wouldn’t that organic engine be of much great value then a search based on link analysis? What do you think ?
Cyril
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