Tuesday, August 30, 2011

" The Filter Bubble"

Hi All,
Here's is an interesting Ted Video where the guy called "Eli Pariser" shares his views the danger of personalizing your search engine which might eventually narrow your world view.



---Abilash

2 comments:

  1. This is related to the point we discussed today--that users can tell precision but don't know if they are missing recall.. With too much user profiling, you will get increasingly "precise" but type-cast results.

    Rao

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  2. Ethan Zuckerman points out some of these same points i.e. to here different points-of-view, not just what we want to hear.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/ethan_zuckerman.html

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