Dan Russell on The Joy of Search

The Informed Life

Dan Russell spent 17 years working at Google, with a significant part of that tenure as a Search Anthropologist: “someone who tries to understand how people search, what kinds of things they seek, and how their tools influence their search process.” Dan is the author of The Joy of Search, which is the focus of our conversation today.

Show notes

• Dan Russell
• The Joy of Search: A Google Insider’s Guide to Going Beyond the Basics by Dan Russell
• The Library of Congress
• Felis silvestris catus - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (Spanish)
• Sagrada Família - Wikipedia (Catalan)
• Howard Rheingold on Tools for Thought – The Informed Life
• ChatGPT
• Google Bard
• Bing
• scite: see how research has been cited

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บท

1. Dan Russell on The Joy of Search (00:00:00)

2. About Dan (00:01:35)

3. How people search (00:03:09)

4. Conversing with a search engine (00:06:13)

5. The role of curiosity (00:09:16)

6. Do one more search (00:12:34)

7. Don't limit yourself to one language (00:15:37)

8. Search beyond online (00:18:05)

9. Understand organizational schema (00:20:53)

10. Large language models and search (00:26:52)

11. Closing (00:31:58)