Internet search gets Web 2.0 style

posted by   kumar (47)   24 months ago (news.zdnet.com)

"In an acknowledgement that some questions may be better answered by a human than a search engine algorithm, Yahoo, Microsoft and others are embracing so-called social search.

Social search generally refers to a Web site or service that relies on the participation of a community to come up with answers to specific questions or to provide links to Web sites or other resources of common interest."