Search Isn't a Solved Problem

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Personal information management is still an unsolved problem, more so than wide search. Engineers can't improve on algaritms as easily as google can on the web because with yheir private data, there's less statistical commonalities to draw from grain of salt here. Adam says that not being able to find our stuff can have consequences. And that's a personal and also a cultural amnesia that i think becomes troubling.

Adam Rogers has been thinking and writing about what’s known in the industry simply as "search." For the last decade, people have been grumbling about not being able to find things online, both in our private data and on the public web, despite ever-evolving algorithms. Ever since humans started writing stuff down, the struggle has been in how to organize it all so that its contents wouldn't be lost in the stacks. Search has always been an attempt to fix that problem.

Search and Ye Might Find