Of Candied Herbs and Happy Babies: Seeking and Searching on Your Own Terms
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interactions, ACM, Volume 15, Issue 6, p.46-49 (2008)
Abstract:
In this article, I address challenges for Internet-based information seeking and searching. Using everyday examples of seeking locations and products online, I illustrate how language differences make keyword selection and therefore search very difficult, and also at the ways in which social search through applications and services like Flickr, Twitter and Facebook are combined with traditional keyword search to create a temporally extended set of actions that are all part of the ecology of information seeking, searching, finding, noting, bookmarking and sharing.
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