theorywatch

We’ve finished Alex Halavais’s provocative Search Engine Society in LIS 5433, and one of the unfinished discussions (so many interesting things, so little time!) was to use his concept of “search intellectuals” to compile a list of the “top 10 search intellectuals.”

Some of the names that were suggested:

Sergey Brin (Google)
Vint Cerf (Google)
Tom Costello (Cuil)
Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC)
Brenda Dervin (Ohio State)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)
Thomas Mann (Library of Congress)
Tefko Saracevic (Rutgers)
Jerry Yang (Yahoo)

I don’t think this is a very good list, but probably that’s because “search intellectual” is too fuzzy a category. I tried googling it, but that didn’t help either, rofl!!