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December 19, 2005
Search & user mutation
Search & user mutation: USA Today has a good piece here on how humans are changing as a result of enhanced searching abilities... we don't memorize facts so much as memorize how to find facts, now. The overall emphasis is on the Google brand, but mention is made of the competitive sport of teasing hard-to-search info out of the engines. (For awhile I've been using the acronym SECML in personal conversation, for "Search Engines Changed My Life"... being able to find, confirm, point to resources has gotten much more important over the past decade.)
Posted by John Dowdell at December 19, 2005 2:49 PM