Comments on: Forget Real-Time, Give Us Over Time! http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/12/30/forget-real-time-give-us-over-time/ Mon, 21 May 2012 05:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jeremy http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/12/30/forget-real-time-give-us-over-time/comment-page-1/#comment-5069 jeremy Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:18:35 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=2883#comment-5069 There has been lots of academic research into the value of "over time" w/r/t search results, as well. When doing a search, you don't always want the best result, right now. You want to be able to see the trails, the histories, the patterns, the changes, over time. One great way of enabling "over time" search results functionality would be for the search engines to "Open Data" their search results, so that users could store, share, refactor, and remix those results, providing over-time information themselves in cases where the search engine was unwilling or unable to do so. There has been lots of academic research into the value of “over time” w/r/t search results, as well. When doing a search, you don’t always want the best result, right now. You want to be able to see the trails, the histories, the patterns, the changes, over time.

One great way of enabling “over time” search results functionality would be for the search engines to “Open Data” their search results, so that users could store, share, refactor, and remix those results, providing over-time information themselves in cases where the search engine was unwilling or unable to do so.

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