http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/2009/09/02/the-unavoidable-reason-social-search-cant-work-alone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-unavoidable-reason-social-search-cant-work-alone Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/2009/09/02/the-unavoidable-reason-social-search-cant-work-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-1521 Ed Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:21:42 +0000 http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/?p=999971#comment-1521 This is a really interesting article. I´ve always thought that algorithmic search would remain strong in regards to social search. But thought that social search would surge ahead. But been changing my mind about this recently (without thinking that social search will not ever be important). That´s because i think social media has been made into something bigger than it really is. Sure it´s big, a phenomen. But i´m beginning to see the novelty factor wear off a bit. Teenagers in the UK, for example (can´t remember source off-hand right now) are turning away in significant numbers to be of notice (if adults embrace something that teenagers do, then teenagers will often try and move away from that). But just from my personal perspective i sometimes just want to do and think something else other than ´social´whatever. Quite happy for example to go to Google for most things for recommendations (no doubt others are the same and that the dependence on social recommendations will diminish to a degree in time too). Also, excellent point about Digg. This is a really interesting article.
I´ve always thought that algorithmic search would remain strong in regards to social search. But thought that social search would surge ahead. But been changing my mind about this recently (without thinking that social search will not ever be important). That´s because i think social media has been made into something bigger than it really is. Sure it´s big, a phenomen. But i´m beginning to see the novelty factor wear off a bit. Teenagers in the UK, for example (can´t remember source off-hand right now) are turning away in significant numbers to be of notice (if adults embrace something that teenagers do, then teenagers will often try and move away from that). But just from my personal perspective i sometimes just want to do and think something else other than ´social´whatever. Quite happy for example to go to Google for most things for recommendations (no doubt others are the same and that the dependence on social recommendations will diminish to a degree in time too).
Also, excellent point about Digg.

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