Comments on: the nature of observing disturbs the observed http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Yelelna http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/comment-page-1/#comment-129960 Yelelna Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:56:42 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/#comment-129960 Yes, it is rather disturbing, though it depends on how much presonalized the results will be. If Google goes too far, people will probably stop using it. Yes, it is rather disturbing, though it depends on how much presonalized the results will be. If Google goes too far, people will probably stop using it.

]]> By: Google stories « MHSLA Blog http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/comment-page-1/#comment-129943 Google stories « MHSLA Blog Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:20:39 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/#comment-129943 [...] – Google’s Personalized Results story via Jessamyn West’s librarian.net: the nature of observing disturbs the observed [...] [...] – Google’s Personalized Results story via Jessamyn West’s librarian.net: the nature of observing disturbs the observed [...]

]]> By: Liberal Education Tomorrow: » Google personalized search for everyone http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/comment-page-1/#comment-129916 Liberal Education Tomorrow: » Google personalized search for everyone Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:53:13 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/#comment-129916 [...] Jessamyn West) Share and [...] [...] Jessamyn West) Share and [...]

]]> By: Brian http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/comment-page-1/#comment-129843 Brian Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:09:59 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/#comment-129843 Also doomed are the people who totally rely on the google to re-find things. We have patrons who search for "jobs in mass" each day, and have always been able to locate the same websites because the results were pretty static. If those start to fluctuate, it will become harder for these low-tech people to use the internet the way they've become comfortable. I think the most common phrase I'll now be hearing is, "I searched for the same words yesterday and now that website isn't there. No, I don't remember what it was called - it was always the second one down." Which means either 1) Deep Freeze truly is a librarian's best friend, or 2) these people need to be pushed across the digital divide (by teaching them modern search etiquette) before the gap opens so wide that they give up entirely. But try explaining personalized search results to someone who doesn't understand an address bar. Also doomed are the people who totally rely on the google to re-find things. We have patrons who search for “jobs in mass” each day, and have always been able to locate the same websites because the results were pretty static. If those start to fluctuate, it will become harder for these low-tech people to use the internet the way they’ve become comfortable. I think the most common phrase I’ll now be hearing is, “I searched for the same words yesterday and now that website isn’t there. No, I don’t remember what it was called – it was always the second one down.”

Which means either 1) Deep Freeze truly is a librarian’s best friend, or 2) these people need to be pushed across the digital divide (by teaching them modern search etiquette) before the gap opens so wide that they give up entirely. But try explaining personalized search results to someone who doesn’t understand an address bar.

]]> By: Cindy Dye http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/comment-page-1/#comment-129841 Cindy Dye Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:06:12 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/#comment-129841 Hm. I think I may be one of the people who winds up wanting the "normal" results, because I spend so much of my day helping people find things, I'd kind of hate to see what their queries would do to my results! (And I wonder what this means for public computers? Will the seventeen "sex" searches which were done by one person skew the results of searches done by people who sit down to that machine later?) Hm. I think I may be one of the people who winds up wanting the “normal” results, because I spend so much of my day helping people find things, I’d kind of hate to see what their queries would do to my results!

(And I wonder what this means for public computers? Will the seventeen “sex” searches which were done by one person skew the results of searches done by people who sit down to that machine later?)

]]> By: Scot Colford http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/comment-page-1/#comment-129838 Scot Colford Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:22:22 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3096/the-nature-of-observing-disturbs-the-observed/#comment-129838 Hope we don't get scroogled. Hope we don’t get scroogled.

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