{"id":222,"date":"2004-12-22T17:58:04","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/stop-searching-start-finding\/"},"modified":"2004-12-22T17:58:04","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T17:58:04","slug":"stop-searching-start-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2004\/12\/stop-searching-start-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Searching, Start Finding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting essay on <a class=\"offsite-link-inline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masternewmedia.org\/news\/2004\/12\/13\/how_microsoft_could_beat_google.htm\" target=\"new\">&#8216;How Microsoft can beat Google at Search&#8217;<\/a>, Robin Good&nbsp;details his wishlist of what the future of search engines should look like.&nbsp; I reproduce, here, some excerpts that are in sync with what I would want too :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Visual<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I want to see visual clusters of results that represent the different possible answer areas that have come up. I want to be able to easily dive into and resurface from those clusters. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Customizable<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Everyone has different values, expectations, preferences, interests and goals. Can I rank results <em>my<\/em> way? Or filter out what <em>I<\/em> consider &#8216;junk&#8217;? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Shareable<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>If my choices, preferences, trusted sources, filtering methods and results cannot be shared with others, we are missing the whole train passing in front of us. This is not old media. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Recordable<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I want to be able to record and access every single site I have visited. I want to be able to search in a subsystem of the Web that includes only the sites I have seen. Memory is a treasure of information.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Robin says in his concluding argument, we need to move from &#8216;Searching&#8217; to &#8216;Finding&#8217;.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s hope some one out there is listening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting essay on &#8216;How Microsoft can beat Google at Search&#8217;, Robin Good details his wishlist of what the future of search engines should look like.  I reproduce, here, some excerpts that are in sync with what I would want too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}