We review hundreds of articles every month for TecTrends, and occasionally one strikes close to home. That happened with a recent piece by James Temple for the online San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Personalization moves into the screening spotlight.’
Search is not enough. For all the improvements in the algorithms used by Google and other search engines, robots still have their limits. Savvy online researchers, reports Temple, are finding out that they still need good old fashioned human intelligence to separate the gold from the dross online.
This is no news to us. At Information Sources we have two decades of experience in guiding our customers through the tech industry wilderness to the information they are seeking. We filter out the press releases and speculation, and identify the articles that will tell you where the action is.
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So we were pleased to come across Mr. Temple’s little nugget of information gold. If you are getting lost in the information wilderness, let us be your guide.
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So you guys consider yourselves filters? Seriously, someone needs to be the first stage sifter so that the rest of us can then narrow our searches to just the neatly labled piles that contain the info we’re looking for. Thanks for your time, energy, and dedication in making our searches easier!
You’re welcome! Search has made big strides, but it is still a looong ways from being able to distinguish the important stuff from the surrounding clutter. At least for now, only humans have that capability, and that is what we do.
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