SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: [Sigia-l] ROI/Value of Search Engine
RE: [Sigia-l] ROI/Value of Search Engine Design - Resources?
From: Boniface Lau (boniface_lau_at_compuserve.com)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 09:31:53 EST
> From: sigia-l-admin_at_asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin_at_asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Peter Merholz
>
> We've heard the bad (e.g., UIE's reports on how when people use
> search, they tend to fail at the task at hand).
I take that with a big grain of salt. For example, the UIE report at:
http://www.uie.com/Articles/why_amazon_succeeds.htm
criticizes Amazon's search capability on electronic products. But the
cited example "DVD player" worked much better than what the report
suggested.
Boniface
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