Comments on: Reading the Future of Web Search http://blogs.nsls.info/searcher/2008/09/reading-the-future-of-web-search/ C. Brian Smith, information and knowledge seeker, treads water and still attempts to throw you a lifepreserver in the information maelstrom, highlighting developments in the arena of searching and finding on the Web. He writes for <a href="http://www.cyberskeptic.com/cs/"><i>CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research</i></a>. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:51:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason http://blogs.nsls.info/searcher/2008/09/reading-the-future-of-web-search/comment-page-1/#comment-4656 Jason Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:41:58 +0000 http://blogs.nsls.info/searcher/?p=403#comment-4656 Thanks for the mention! You're 100% right that humans can't keep up with the entire web, however humans could do the top 1-5m searches and they make up the top 1/3rd to 50% of searches. Mahalo already has 100k pages and 300 folks building/updating them. We will grow to 3,000 folks building pages over the coming years and 1-2m "topic/guide" pages. For the longer tail results we can default to machine search. So, it's not either or in our minds... it's both! best jason Thanks for the mention! You’re 100% right that humans can’t keep up with the entire web, however humans could do the top 1-5m searches and they make up the top 1/3rd to 50% of searches.

Mahalo already has 100k pages and 300 folks building/updating them. We will grow to 3,000 folks building pages over the coming years and 1-2m “topic/guide” pages. For the longer tail results we can default to machine search.

So, it’s not either or in our minds… it’s both!

best jason

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