Paper 3 -
Taking our sweet time to search.

Bailey Newton-Browne.

Marian Dork, Peter Bennett and Roseamund Davies have all come together in order to write this paper about “Taking our time to search.” They basically want people to know that taking your time and researching something slowly will actually lead to better, well developed answers to what you were originally looking for. They argue that not so long ago, reading material was something that required time and effort to research on something took time, It all took time. Whereas now, things are instant. All instantaneous, this is because of developed technology and software that were designed for people to get the answers they’re looking for, way faster and easier.

This is all well and good but I know for a fact, people will take instantaneous search over slow search any day, it doesn’t actually matter if this paper has a leg to stand on (Of which, I don’t think it does.) It only means that they were right about slow search being more profitable and beneficial but that doesn’t make it useful, simply because people in industry and of the public will all take instantaneous search over slow, developed search every time.

I didn’t like this paper for very few and basic reasons, they begin with, the paper is written like they are writing about is already in use widely and more so than instant searches. This is wrong and we’re in a world that knows that, knowing that themselves, the authors all knew this and despite it, writ what they did. Secondly, I don’t believe that this paper would ever be put to use anywhere other than for writing papers about ridiculously in depth subjects. No one ever needs ridiculous amounts of research, searching something is most often only to get one answer in particular which would and always will be more efficient and favoured by the quicker, faster and more impressive instant search. I do not believe this paper is useful and would actually like to understand more from the authors on where they wanted this paper to go in particular, not to object, merely to learn more from more forms of the media community.

To conclude, although I don’t think this paper is useful, it did prove one point it was trying to make, slow search would be beneficial. However, only in the sense that you’ll get more and more well developed answers for the questions you research/search. The other point was that they thought it should be widely used and therefore more so than instant search. This wasn’t backed up and not applied enough to the actual world.