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Before I could search for a solution, the solution found...
That brought to mind the brief history of search-engine domination. If we trace the roots of our Internet behavior back to the Net's wild-west days in the mid-to-late '90s, most of us were probably launching into cyberspace from a portal page like Yahoo's, or through Excite or Lycos (remember them?). And by the new millennium, search engines, especially Google, had become the place to begin and end our Internet days. Then came Generation Y and the social network. What began as a younger-user phenomenon quickly caught on with 25-to-34-year-olds...
...social networks herald the end of search? I wouldn't go that far. What may be in danger, however, is the serendipitous nature of search - for example, the gratuitous queries that we type into Google while we're on hold with India, waiting for tech support to solve our issue du jour. But, now, when we have idle time, we don't go to Google anymore; we go to Facebook. And on Facebook, we don't have to seek information. Instead, information just comes...
...continue to use search engines, of course, to seek important information, but over the last several months I've noticed that more and more information is also being pushed at me by my new friends (since shamelessly soliciting Facebook friendships in a previous column, I now have more than 900 new friends) - new music from Daisy's playlist, what books Mel is reading, what movies made the top of James's list - whether I've requested it or not. Perhaps the nature of the pure search will evolve this way too. Perhaps Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is onto something...
Seven months ago, former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 retired from his position in University Hall. Now, interim Dean David R. Pilbeam’s tenure is nearing its close, and a search for Gross’ permanent replacement is underway. Rather than be prematurely retrospective on the successes and failures of Pilbeam’s interim, we urge the administration to recognize the immediacy of student concerns in the search for a replacement. Although this might seem self-evident, it is imperative that the new dean of the College be responsive to student...