[Yulpub] Hey, Joe, whadda think about Afghanistan?

[Suzanne Lorimer]

 From yesterday's Wired Campus:


<http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1316>Web Search Is About to 
Get More Social

Major search engines are working toward adding new features that would make 
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2006/tc20060414_163652.htm>searching 
the Web a more social activity. Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy a 
small search company called <http://www.eurekster.com/>Eurekster, which 
combines traditional Web-search results with information culled from 
social-networking sites like Friendster. A Web search could end up looking 
at the information and preferences on a searcher's friends' Web sites for 
answers in addition to scouring the entire Web. _(BusinessWeek)_ If that 
happens, could that limit people's online worldviews? Or are such moves 
necessary to find relevant information as millions of full-text books and 
billions of new Web pages hit the Internet?

-Sue


Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
(phone) 203-432-8371  (fax) 203-432-8527
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