[Sigia-l] Google Needs People

[Tim Salam]

> From: Peter Morville
> Maybe I was just being a cranky information architect when I wrote the
> article ;-)

Ah - happens to all of us.  As an aside, it sure is easy to be cranky when
one is an IA, isn't it? :)

>  Seriously, it seems a shame to use the old 'no humans'
> sales pitch when the beauty and usefulness of Google comes from the very
> fact that it uses the links that humans create.

While I definetly agree that Google is sort of forgetting the "hand that
feeds them," at least they weren't too overt in doing so.

As a side note, I think what Google is doing is right up my alley because
I've always believe the point of technology is to free up human time for
what we *want* to do (which isn't always muddling with details like editing
and compiling news sources).

Regardless of opposing viewpoints, thanks for the thought provocation -
always a good thing. :)

Tim Salam
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