“BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.”
“BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.”
I do not think most people know about the computer science definition of algorithm involving discrete steps. For average people I feel like your definiton of “any system that automatically sorts or elecits information, apart from responding to user input” is the only one known.
You may be right, I’m not really sure. And in this case, this is still what people are referring to colloquially.