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Language limitations of search (4)
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Jul 19, 2011
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One bad thing about how big the internet has gotten is that it's sometimes impossible to find things. Not in an unorganized way, like you're trying to find something in the middle of a pile. But in a language limitation kind of way. For example, recently I was looking for pictures of mice. I wanted the animal, not the computer peripheral. For whatever reason, Google didn't want to show me the animal. So I wasted a few minutes sifting through pictures of plastic white objects with buttons, before finally giving up and doing something else. The problem isn't that the information doesn't exist, or that the algorithms used to find it are lacking. It's that the English language isn't complex enough to handle what we're throwing at it. It's like putting a CD on a record player. #technology
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Conversation of complaints
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Jul 19, 2011
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I heard a guy say the other day that complaining is the simplest form of conversation. I thought that was pretty interesting, except that he said it in reference to his girlfriend who was complaining about the traffic on the way to the BBQ we were all at, so it was a little awkward. He hasn't yet learned the art of "not saying dumb things to your girlfriend." #sociology
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