[Sigia-l] Findability

[Thomas Vander Wal]

Derek R wrote:
> 	 
> Thomas wrote:
> 
>>| Findability is about the user 
>>| being able to find...
>>|  
>>| Findability is a concept to help...
>>|
>>| If my uncle can not find the information 
>>| on a site about car X he will not be interested
>>| in car X.  Here the findability or lack of findability
>>| of information is a factor.
> 
> 
> So what you are saying Thomas, is that if a car dealer drops 10 billion
> or so advertising flyers around the city and litters the entire town
> until it is *saturated* (fanaticism) with 'information on car X' -- then
> the car dealer has a better chance at making a 'sale' ('findability' as
> a factor).
> 
> That is it, isn't it?

Nope, not close.  The much cheaper solution is to use findability to 
educate the maker of car X that having information available to other 
related information.  I don't think anybody, unless they misunderstand, 
or wants to intentionally misconstrue findability would suggest what you 
did.

-- Thomas