Scott Austin, from VentureWire, wrote a compelling commentary yesterday that does a great job of explaining the value of human powered search.
In his article, Trying to kick the Google habit, he says it's great to get 1.7 million Web pages in .017 seconds, but "it's laborious to sift through the results that aren't very organized. I rarely venture past the first ten results, and many of those listings are often stories from five years ago or links to sites that are placeholders for advertisements."
Judging from the dramatic increase we are seeing everyday in the number of health searches being conducted on OrganizedWisdom Health, there is no doubt that consumers are demanding more from their search results, especially when searching for something as critical as health information.
If you are interested in, or still unfamiliar with, the human-powered search movement, it is a worthwhile read.
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