[Sigia-l] Findability

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Jon Hanna
| 
| Consider http://www.google.com/search?q=guinness

I think the problem here is that Google is a full-text search system.
It's definitely one of the best, and does an admirable job, but it
remains a full-text search system, with all the flaws such a system
has. If you use a proper ontological system to organize your content
you can provide far better findability than this.

To use your analysis, you found a "stout called Guinness", "Guinness
World Records", and "Sir Alec Guinness". If you had used a real
ontology system that's what the search results would have shown, for
example like this:

  Topic                    Type
  ----------------------   ------------
  Guinness                 Beer product
  Guinness World Records   Web site
  Sir Alec Guiness         Person

By navigating in a concept space rather than in document space you
could have experienced something closer to real findability.

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