Comments on: Human-powered Search Engine http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/01/31/human-powered-search-engine/ Bringing old-fashioned solutions to the 21st century Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:50:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: The Low-Tech Times » Blog Archive » Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/01/31/human-powered-search-engine/#comment-1473 The Low-Tech Times » Blog Archive » Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:56:29 +0000 http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/01/31/human-powered-search-engine/#comment-1473 [...] Related: Human-powered Search Engine [...] […] Related: Human-powered Search Engine […]

]]> By: rajesh http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/01/31/human-powered-search-engine/#comment-630 rajesh Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:52:05 +0000 http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/01/31/human-powered-search-engine/#comment-630 Human powered search would have been a great idea in the incipient days of the internet, but the very dynamics of networks make it impossible for an expanding node-based network such as the network of hyperlinks of relevant subjects, to be covered by a limited, rule-based semantic system such as the human. It makes much more sense to use raw processing and search power to generate lots of results, which can then be parsed by humans. This problem is not unlike the so-called Genetic Swarm Optimization algorithm developed for engineering problems, which inherits the best features of the Genetic Algorithm (an evolutionary search method) and the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm (another search method based on swarm intelligence). Human powered search would have been a great idea in the incipient days of the internet, but the very dynamics of networks make it impossible for an expanding node-based network such as the network of hyperlinks of relevant subjects, to be covered by a limited, rule-based semantic system such as the human. It makes much more sense to use raw processing and search power to generate lots of results, which can then be parsed by humans.

This problem is not unlike the so-called Genetic Swarm Optimization algorithm developed for engineering problems, which inherits the best features of the Genetic Algorithm (an evolutionary search method) and the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm (another search method based on swarm intelligence).

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