Comments on: Social Search: No Panacea http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/02/11/social-search-no-panacea/ by Stephen E. Arnold Tue, 22 May 2012 06:55:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marc Arenstein http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/02/11/social-search-no-panacea/comment-page-1/#comment-2651 Marc Arenstein Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:33:09 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/02/11/social-search-no-panacea/#comment-2651 I have wondered outloud on Google Groups and elsewhere about a kind of search that would allow the option to drill down to further layers of search keywords, phrases and strategies so that the searcher can see hierarchies of past searches and their results, cached or updated. This would allow the searcher to "stand on the shoulders of giants" (from google scholar) - "giants" here being past searchers who have managed to get "further"- possibly allowing for more pinpointed searches or opening new possibilities not previously considered. I am not sure that this is possible but if it is, the only reason I can think why it isn't made public is because it would be good enough to be the way an inhouse proprietary Google search works. I have wondered outloud on Google Groups and elsewhere about a kind of search that would allow the option to drill down to further layers of search keywords, phrases and strategies so that the searcher can see hierarchies of past searches and their results, cached or updated. This would allow the searcher to “stand on the shoulders of giants” (from google scholar) – “giants” here being past searchers who have managed to get “further”- possibly allowing for more pinpointed searches or opening new possibilities not previously considered.

I am not sure that this is possible but if it is, the only reason I can think why it isn’t made public is because it would be good enough to be the way an inhouse proprietary Google search works.

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