[Sigia-l] ROI/Value of Search Engine Design - Resources?

[Chris Chandler]

"Boniface Lau"

> The studies are yours. You know everything about them, including how
> useful they really are in supporting your published UIE opinions. If
> you really thought the study details would make a strong case, it
> would make sense to cite them - especially when you yourself were
> having trouble making a convincing case in an open discussion watched
> by your peers.


Speak for yourself.

I've followed the debate and am reasonably satisfied with Jared's straightforward defense of his results. You might be
technically correct that it is not quite right to say that search is worse than nothing, given the information we
have -- but it's a very minor point.

On the other hand, I've marked your arguments down for the stubborn insistence on Jared making his company's proprietary
research publicly available to satisfy you. IMO, it's unreasonable for you to ask, and rather petty to keep insisting
that not giving away his work for free lends any credence to your argument.

I'm not particularly interested in debating with you, but since you made reference to the public nature of the forum, I
wanted to let you know that things are not as cut and dried as you may think.

-cc