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Six degr"e"es of separation shrinking even further

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Think of two subjects and do a search on Wikipedia , you'll realize that these 2 subjects are related to each other somewhere within the range of six links. This might be the average with the maximum link of separation being close to 12 but have we ever thought how true it is for the people in the first world and second world who are really separated by only six degrees of separation . (I will not get into the real existence of first, second and third world country because in times to come, and infact even now this division of worlds will cease to exist).  Some proven experiments done say that this degree of separation might really be just a 5 degree of separation , but will this remain what it is and will the social networking sites and various other modes of getting people together and reuniting lost friends and families decrease this separation further. It has become so easy for one in the networked world to search an information about some individual these days. I agree t

N"e"xt generation search - Necessary evil or necessarily an evil

What is it that Google, Yahoo and MSN have in common. They all do search the same way as others except that google has gradually become the unanimous winner when it comes to the no. of areas from where it gathers its data from .  So what is it that is still lacking in the search results? What if I want my results to be more coherent to what I think and want rather than get the similar mundane results that every other user gets? Am sure with the web that the search engines and others are trying to build around people they would certainly know in times to come each and every users every single need. So how about explaining it with an example - We have an user who searches for the term "baseball", considering that this user is based out of Chicago and he has bought online tickets through the google desktop, of the much awaited Cubs v/s Sox match already he might be looking for more details about the two teams under discussion rather than getting the results on places that sell