[Sigia-l] Findability (classification and search)

Karl Fast karl.fast at pobox.com
Mon Jan 27 21:22:11 EST 2003


>> I believe that a core objective of IA is to place content in
>> context. IA should help answer the question: What is this piece of
>> content related to?
> 
> So you're saying that you find Amazon's contextualization whereby
> if you look for a book you also get to see what kind of underwear
> people are buying useful? Effective?

Usually, yes. The underwear thing was funny, but dumb.

*Most* of the time, I find their contextualization helpful. Even
when I don't find it helpful, I rarely find that it gets in the way
of what I want to accomplish.

That's my experience.

--karl





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