[finders] Real World Search Engines

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July 20, 2007: Real World Search Engines

http://www.findability.org/archives/000178.php

I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about Real World Search Engines
and how gadgets like the Loc8tor do (and don't) help you find lost
possessions:

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It won't surprise you that this idea -- that you should be able easily to
find stuff around you -- has a name: ambient findability. The man who coined
it, Michigan-based information architecture consultant and writer Peter
Morville, has focused mainly on the idea of being able to find information,
but believes we're only a few years away from being able to tag and track
all objects so that, as he says, "it gets harder to lose anything."

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The author, Jeremy Wagstaff of Loose Wire, concludes we're not there yet,
but still, it's nice to see ambient findability swimming deeper into the
mainstream.