{"id":16,"date":"2005-10-15T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/?p=16"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:41:43","slug":"all-hail-google-hey-not-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2005\/10\/15\/all-hail-google-hey-not-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail Google&#8230; Well, Maybe Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an increasing trend I&#8217;ve been noticing out here on the net: a growing army of jabbering zombies regurgitating the same slavish uncritical adoration of Google.  This level of uncritically always makes me a bit uneasy.   Finally I&#8217;ve come across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.com\/weblog\/050930wpvsgoogle.html\">refreshingly different take on Google<\/a>.  Perhaps the great Google might end up being more like the Great Oz.  I especially like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the Network, The power of people will kick the backside out of algorithms. While computer sciencey solutions are almost always gameable, communities are equally almost always resilient, adaptive, and intelligent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Philosophically its a very compelling position.  Indeed algorithms can necessarily only deal in data (dead letters so to speak).  Meanwhile human communities share information, knowledge, wisdom and surprisingly little data.  Admittedly wiki&#8217;s are not exactly communities of people, their content is socially created and cultivated&#8211;no algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>This could explain some of my own personal experience.  After reading this I realized that I&#8217;m using Google less and less frequently, in favour of Wikipedia.  If I need to know something, Wikipedia is now the first place I turn.  I still use Google to help me find websites, but for information or knowledge Wikipedia is my engine of choice.  <\/p>\n<p>PS.<br \/>\nHere is a <a href=\"http:\/\/researchweb.watson.ibm.com\/history\/\">visualization<\/a> of the self-correcting\/self-healing properties of social information software like wikipedia.  I found this by following a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterme.com\/\">peterme.com&#8217;s october 12th posting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an increasing trend I&#8217;ve been noticing out here on the net: a growing army of jabbering zombies regurgitating the same slavish uncritical adoration of Google. This level of uncritically always makes me a bit uneasy. Finally I&#8217;ve come across a refreshingly different take on Google. Perhaps the great Google might end up being more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}