Search is futile.

Or at the very least, interesting. I tried something. Took one term and plugged it into various social medial sites, and you can see there’s a disconnect between the way we label things based on our own naming conventions, and the way a search engine brings you those results. People assign meaning to a particular thing. Relevance plays a part, but search engines just look for mostly where a term was used. The word I searched for was red, and I took four links at random from the first page of results that came up.

On Flickr:






- On YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4
- On Twitter: 1, 2, 3, 4
- On MySpace: 1, 2, 3, 4
- On LinkedIn: 1, 2, 3, 4 (you may have to login first to view)
- On Technorati: 1, 2, 3, 4
- On Digg: 1, 2, 3, 4