funny.

“Google Needs People”

has a central thesis that sounds mighty familiar:

“Like the fabled creatures of mud and sticks, Google is
a golem, an inanimate jumble of algorithms and interfaces, held
together by the connective tissue of links.

No people. No links. No Google. “

maybe it’s because i wrote about a similar idea

over a year ago

in response to cory doctorow’s evangelism of “implicit metadata” in

metacrap

:

“in fact, the author seems to be arguing that automated
“implicit metadata” is the way to go. but who decided that there
was a complicated and reliable relationship between linking and
relevancy?

a warm body. “

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