http://irgupf.com/2009/09/17/there-is-no-crowd/ Information Retrieval Research, Issues, and Discussion Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://irgupf.com/2009/09/17/there-is-no-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-4629 jeremy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:26:58 +0000 http://irgupf.com/?p=910#comment-4629 Yes, there are indeed places where it works. But more attention needs to be paid, and more discussion needs to happen, about where those places are, as well as what the limitations are. It's true; mining search logs helps. But it helps for short snout, navigational types of information seeking. Not so much for exploration :-) Because the point of exploration is that you're going to take a different path than all those who came before you, not the same path. Yes, there are indeed places where it works. But more attention needs to be paid, and more discussion needs to happen, about where those places are, as well as what the limitations are. It’s true; mining search logs helps. But it helps for short snout, navigational types of information seeking. Not so much for exploration Because the point of exploration is that you’re going to take a different path than all those who came before you, not the same path.

]]> http://irgupf.com/2009/09/17/there-is-no-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-4627 Daniel Tunkelang Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:14:41 +0000 http://irgupf.com/?p=910#comment-4627 While the "wisdom of crowds" has been even more oversold than the "long tail", I do think there are places where it is both possible and effective to leverage a mass of passive participants, e.g., by mining search logs. Granted, it is a limited sort of wisdom, but it's certainly useful for tasks like obtaining a vocabulary for content tagging. While the “wisdom of crowds” has been even more oversold than the “long tail”, I do think there are places where it is both possible and effective to leverage a mass of passive participants, e.g., by mining search logs. Granted, it is a limited sort of wisdom, but it’s certainly useful for tasks like obtaining a vocabulary for content tagging.

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