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POPSWill search become redundant?
First answer: Wrong (imho) - you need search when you want to be able to stay up to date, rather than relying on outdated resources or single sources of information with vested interests. If you did know where to find eveything? Well, that would be called being omnipotent, and, as a God you probably wouldn't waste time on the internet. Social networks - yes, but which one will you look on? Or will you go through them one by one? Why do market comparison sites work again? Ah yes, convenience. Almost all the other examples are trivially answered with - no, no I wouldn't. I would use my search engine du jour (currently Google) and it would tend to put the same answers as the slow manual way suggested here near the top, but also give me alternative perspectives. Now, I am not saying we should rely on Google (or any other search engine), and I do make use of crowd-sourced search via the lovely people I know and follow on Twitter. But this article seems, to me, to lack under
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POPSSocial search More MeAggregator like goodness, this time suggested by Google. Identifying your social network, and sharing search/exploration results with them, should open up results to people based on their own implicit trust networks. MeAggregator plans to make that trust network more explicit, and learn from user interaction as well as allowing the users to define it.
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POPSOpen Social api Facebook isn't on the list of services implementing this, which is a shame. Although Google's dominance in things is a little Microsofty in style and causes some people I know concern...
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POPSgoogle docs ToS 11.1 Now, does this relate to material I submit to the service for the sole purpose of enabling Google to provide me with the service, or does the license I grant to Google to manipulate my data exist for the sole purpose of enabling Google to provide me with the service? It reads as the former, but as I don't submit data for the sole purpose of letting Google provide me with the service, the whole of the clause would then not apply.