[Sigia-l] OT: Library Thing

[Alexander Johannesen]

On 9/28/05, Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> What's fascinating to me is the counterplay to Google's algorithmic search
> in the slowly emerging forms of user-tagged material. Can 100+ tagging
> non-professionals (with passion about a specific subject) beat 100,000+
> Google servers and a clever algorithm? Inquiring VCs wanna know.

I'd have to say 'no', to tell the truth; I've worked so much with a)
librarians cataloging things, b) normal people tagging things, and c)
machines indexing things, and even if I'd liked a) and / or b) to win,
c) beats them every time because they're cheaper. Nothing beats cheap,
it looks like.


Alex
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