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Discovery vs. Search
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- Search is about precision: finding what you ask for; Discovery is
about finding what you wanted, but didn't know to ask for.
- Successful search is precise; successful discovery is always
approximate
- Goal is to enable serendipitous discovery -- things close to what we
want, that expand our understanding
- Discovery may need expansion or refinement; search rarely does.
- Discovery requires "find more like this" that is content- and
context-aware
- How does the user find what she wants, in a diverse, interface-driven,
multi-container, multi-author, distributed environment?
- What kind of "knowledge exploration, discovery, and distillation"
capabilities are really desired by users?
- ... and which users?
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