Foskett forecasts Google lame-search apocalypse

My friend Stephen Foskett is a brilliant guy who seemingly never stops thinking about technology, except when attending Little League games.  Ont Friday he posted on how Google searches are destined to lose their value over time by not including the most relevant links.  Acronym junkies might enjoy talking about this de-evolution of search as SANAS (Search as Noise and Spam).  To me it seems like another example of the tragedy of the commons - like the space around our planet.

So who loses if Google search start sucking?  Certainly not Google. Behavior is hard to change and as long as Google is free to use, people are going to search it to smithereens (SITS).  Many techdroids have developed a knee jerk reaction to curiosity, and it's spelled Google!  And once we go there, its all about the distractions.

This post marks the return of the SWCSA, which has been on hiatus for a couple months.  There is something about the freedom of Summer that just makes me want to start rambling into the windshield.

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Comments

[Stephen Foskett]

Once again, Marc proves that StorageRap is the only blog worth reading (and watching)!

It comes down to this: If Google misses out on half of the web because it's sealed off with nofollows or out of sight on Twitter, then their results will suffer. Remember AltaVista? Lycos? Heck, Yahoo? The masses have changed search engines before, and they can again. Google has a problem to fix!

And yes, it was a bit of a technicality. But this little technical nothing (nofollow) is threatening everything we think the Internet is!

[Sunshine Mugrabi]

This is very interesting, although I'm not sure I understand the term "post-chimpanzee evolutionaries." Does this mean that we have not yet evolved beyond our humble chimp beginnings to see that there are other search engines to choose from? Or does it imply just the opposite -- that because we have moved so far away from our roots as smart, aggressive tool-using creatures, we can no longer make intelligent decisions about how to search the web? Inquiring chimp/bonobo minds want to know.

@sunshinemug

[marc farley]

Mystery is a wonderful thing. Who knows what that means?