[Sigia-l] The category of "Miscellaneous"

[Richard Wiggins]

You won't find anyone on the planet who is a bigger proponent of 
manually-crafted search result sets (a.k.a. Best Bets) but it is a
fact that the world is divided into two parts:

1) Those who browse by default

and

2) Those who search by default

Even if you deliver THE right hit as the first item in the hit list,
people in category 1) will complain that they had to (gasp!) type in a
search to find what they were looking for.

That doesn't disqualify the solution; just be aware that browse-only
people will kvetch.

/rich

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:50:12 -0400, Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
 
> The difficulty of labeling this may in fact suggest its own solution:
> Googlize it.
> 
> That is, give them a single entry point (Searchbox) and manage
> categorization through the result set. More difficult for you, easier for
> the user.
> 
> Ziya
> Nullius in Verba