[Sigia-l] re: the future of search

[Whitney Quesenbery]

At 12:21 PM 7/29/2002 -0700, Peter Merholz wrote:
>Of course people do research on the Web.


I can add an anecdote to that one.

A few years ago, we were working on an internal system for a major 
publisher to pull together all of their book, product and author 
information in a coherent structure that everyone could access. During our 
user interviews, we asked where they were getting various kinds of 
information now. Many of the editors were using the web - Amazon, personal 
author sites, and so on - for information about their own books.





Whitney Quesenbery
whitneyq at acm.org
Usability Professionals' Association - www.upassoc.org
STC Usability SIG - www.stcsig.org/usability/
Cognetics Corporation - www.cognetics.com