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If you exclude Facebook and Twitter from the Internet nothing of value would be lost. I'm perfectly fine with not having that information indexed and searchable
by super_mario 14y ago
If you exclude Facebook and Twitter from the Internet nothing of value would be lost. I'm perfectly fine with not having that information indexed and searchable, it would just get in the way. Also, if these disappeared there would be a lot more real time information posted in hopefully more open and accessible data stores (in the true spirit of the web) rather than in private corporate silos.
- rpd 14y agoI agree, you picked up on a point in the article which said, in summary, Google solved a problem back in 2000. I believe that Google is still solving that problem, and again in 2008, it also attempted to solve the "trending" problem. I think the trending problem is "solved" by Facebook and Twitter because of their structure, so the next step is to search the structure for data. Google doesn't do this. So, I agree that nothing is lost, however, we clearly have two modes for searching: an Archival mode, and a Trending mode. They tend to interfere with one another when both results are displayed in the same list (Search Engine says: "You clearly want the most recent stuff, right?") . The next step is to now separate the two result sets so that more relevant information can be found more easily within the context of the search query.