Information Discovery Quotes

There are many benefits to having interesting friends on Facebook. In my case, given that fellow academics constitute a sizable portion of my online friends, I am at times privy to shared studies that I might otherwise miss (or perhaps only identify at some future date).

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with television. With the blogsphere, however, you actually have to dig, and know how to use multiple tools to figure out whom you should be speaking to.

The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.

In the fast-changing, information-filled world of the Internet, you never know what you might find. Maybe you'll discover a great price on an airline ticket, or maybe you'll come across that quote you've been racking your brain for.

I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.

Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.