Search streams - the logs in which the contents of users' search requests are recorded - are a wealth of data about what people want and how they express their desires. The owner of such a search stream possesses a powerful asset, once user attributes may be calculated to determine how they relate to the target market.
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Desktop search is very valuable for corporate workers, ... Once they understand how to use desktop search, workers can't conceive of a time when they did not have it.Whit Andrews
In the last 10 years we have seen a number of initiatives intended to make it easier to build a data-driven web site. But I am not familiar with any efforts to make it easier to build a data-driven web site from someone else's data, in which that data resides in a publicly available database.
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The hairy assumption is that people want to do this, and that they're going to do a good job. There is some value to me if I use it myself if you used it and I cared what you thought, it would be substantially more valuable for me.
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This is the idea of the readwrite Web, ... The Web is there for you and me to annotate it, share it with our friends, share it with our business associates, to add a layer of insight and personal understanding.
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