Posting Date: October 12, 2002

Google Needs People -- "Like the fabled creatures of mud and sticks, Google is a golem, an inanimate jumble of algorithms and interfaces, held together by the connective tissue of links. No people. No links. No Google. Similarly, the potential of Google News lies in its ability to leverage the distributed intelligence of thousands of editors and reporters. No editors. No reporters. No Google News." (Comments: Written by Peter Morville, author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition.)

Reader Comments...

I use Google because there's no better alternative, so far.

I do not use Google News because there are many better alternatives. My favorite news sites dish up better news than Google's choices. That's why they're my favorites. I pity the fool who enjoys using Google News for anything other than search.

Posted by: Contrarian on October 12, 2002 06:09 PM

I don't think of Google as a search engine. I think that it is a relationship viewer.

Posted by: Mac on October 13, 2002 10:37 AM

A 'relationship viewer' - tell me more Mac. Interesting.

Posted by: daniel szuc on October 13, 2002 11:07 PM

daniel, start with my "Search Considered Harmful ?" comments on WebWord Posting 992

Posted by: Mac on October 14, 2002 07:07 AM

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