DISQUS

Marshall · 6 months ago

Agreed. Re bounded search, i spend a lot of time in google cse

Chris Messina · 6 months ago

Thanks for this Jake. As I talked to my girlfriend about this stuff, it became clear that I'm personally wrestling with a lot of competing issues, and it's not even altogether clear to ME what needs to happen...! I can sense that there's a problem here, but haven't yet figured out the solution — at least one that is easy to use but that can also be used widely, with little education involved (i.e. NOT setting up your own domain).

I do think that the idea of bounding search to a known universe is useful from the user-search perspective; I also think that search that's in relationship to something or someone else can be useful (i.e. "The Chris Messina on Twitter", or "The Chris Messina in San Francisco", or, "Chris Messina, my brother-in-law", etc). People remember people through associations, and until those kinds of relations are surfaced through the web, I think that this loose approximation of identity will persist and remain popular.

jakelevine · 6 months ago

Thanks for the response Chris. We're totally in agreement here. The problems are big and the solution is anything but straight forward. What's important is that people like you and Marshall are getting out in front of the issues and bringing awareness to what I think is one of the most important transformational shifts of our online generation. I look forward to seeing how this conversation unfolds, and to hopefully one day being a part of that solution.