{"id":2557,"date":"2012-01-12T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2018-12-19T07:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T13:15:24","slug":"search-versus-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/themes\/peregrination\/search-versus-serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Versus Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Ian Leslie&#8217;s original article: &#8220;Louis Pasteur wrote, &#8216;In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.&#8217;&#8230;These days, we tend to associate serendipity with luck, and we neglect the sagacity&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are less likely to come across things we are not in quest of.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nI like this description of fl\u00e2neurs those who wander without a map, a term I&#8217;ve never heard it before. I&#8217;ve often made many of the same points (less eloquently) that Ian Leslie brings up in his article and my concern grows as Google develops social search.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1843magazine.com\/content\/ideas\/ian-leslie\/search-serendipity?page=full\">Ian Leslie in The Economist 1843: In Search of Serendipity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity happens more to those who seek, to those whose minds are prepared both to look and see. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/themes\/peregrination\/search-versus-serendipity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}