[Sigia-l] Google Needs People

[Drop, Daniel]

		Jan wrote: I was looking for Iraq stuff. I checked off and
on for a few days after it first went up, and then since it wasn't giving me
what I wanted, I stopped.

This comment interested me.  Jan gave up on Google News because Iraq stuff
wasn't in the headlines. I wasn't certain why they gave up or what they gave
up on.  

-	Did they give up looking because they couldn't find the news? Google
News has a search facility (prominently on top)?  Maybe with the headlines
listed on the front page, people start expecting their important news to be
there.  If not, there is no news on the subject
-	Or, Did they give up on Google as a good collector of news since a
perceived important topic was not in the headlines?
-	Or, did they give up for some other reason?

The answers may be interesting in how people use news sites.  Maybe, they
expect the major news to jump out at them and they don't expect to have to
search for it.

Daniel R. Drop
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