[Sigia-l] The category of "Miscellaneous"

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Christina Wodtke:

> Humans are not terribly articulate creatures.

The most articulate in the universe that we know of.

> Browse is a query formation tool.

So is the iterative process of search-and-refine.
 
> And sometimes a human providing a representative set of results works better
> than allowing popularity to define the meaning of the term.

That's a simplistic definition of, say, Google.

Historical note: people by the millions voted with their clicks to move from
directory browsing (Yahoo) to algorithmic search (Google), not the other way
around. Something more cost-effective than the latter might come along one
day, but I haven't seen one yet.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba