Information Filtering Goes Social

• ABC news call ~1993. They’ve heard about categorization software. They want to identify:

  • news programming about sex and violence

• With the WWW, rapid commercial adoption of filtering software for:

  • adult content.

• This was not on the research radar screen.

  • Major use of filtering now: taste alignment.
  • Major technique: pooled judgements
    • Examples: Ringo, DirectHit

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