On 08/29/2011 08:54 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Meloni, Julie (jcm7sb) wrote:
>
"To what degree are search results against a database or index expected
to be objective?"
The little I know about objectivity is mostly snippets of dialog from
Woody Allen's "Love and Death"*, but it has always been clear that Google
did away with the idea of "the [objectively] right" responses in favor of
"enough [subjectively] good responses to satisfy the searcher's
[self-perceived] need".
Thomas Dowling
tdowling_at_ohiolink.edu
(* "Morality is subjective" - "Subjectivity is *objective*!" - "...Can we
not talk about sex so much?")
Received on Mon Aug 29 2011 - 09:04:37 EDT