SCOBLE -- Robert Scoble shares a few thoughts about emerging MSN search functionality. He talks about wanting to find patterns in people. He wants to find groups with shared interests. Scoble has searched Technorati for several themes, such as "all blogs that mention quilting, and they are in some sort of order based on how many inbound links they have and they bias toward webloggers who mentioned quilting in the past few days."
He wants "a new kind of search engine that combines the full-text approach that Feedster.com uses with the inbound-link analysis that Technorati does." With this kind of reach, he would have predictive results. He would probably find people most likely to talk about quilting in the future.
Imagine if this search functionality was combined with Orkut. If the result set could map to Orkut profiles, including pictures. In Scoble's words, "such a system might get millions of people to give up Outlook's contact system." If Microsoft is doing such a thing, they would have the tools behind the most powerful electronic profiling on the planet.
Robert Scoble -- "a new kind of people search is needed"
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