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Search and Ye Might Find

99% Invisible

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Search Isn't a Solved Problem

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.

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