• shanghaibebop@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Google search engine destroyed lots of jobs. I would even argue, from a US perspective, it even changed our relationship to institutions of knowledge curation (libraries, news papers, magazines)

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      1 year ago

      I wasn’t able to find anything about that, perhaps because I used Google to search for it. Can you provide a source so I can learn more about that? It certainly sounds feasible but I want to learn more.

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        This was more or less a reflection of my personal experience.

        When I was in school, we were taught how to do research. It involves going to Libraries and looking for primary secondary and tertiary sources via the Dewey decimal system. We were taught how to use almanacs and even had an almanac competition on how fast someone can find information.

        Public institutions such as the Library system in the United States, were our “temple” of knowledge. Public support for Libraries was historically VERY high.

        However, since the popularization of search engines, it has radically reshaped our expectations of finding information. We expect to find it at our fingertip, in less than 200ms, at the cost of quality and gatekeeping institutions that filtered out a lot of junk knowledge.

        I was able to find a few articles talking about this: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2477/2279

        I especially love the quote, “Conflation of information retrieval with knowledge”