[Sigia-l] "Best Bets" the Yahoo way

[Lyle_Kantrovich at cargill.com]

(I sent this earlier today, but it was rejected because I use 
LookOut...er Outlook which sent in Rich Text...grr.)


Of course, waiting to critiquing the end product might be more fruitful 
and accurate than a few statements in an interview which might be a bit 
difficult to decipher.

Note also that relevancy is an interesting thing to test when you're 
talking about the whole web.  A user may determine that all the results 
returned were very relevant, but not be able to determine if there were 
other more relevant results missing.  E.g., search for "cancer"...do you 
know if you got the most relevant results possible?  Do you even know 
what a search for "cancer" was looking for?  A search for "Dodge cars" 
on the other hand is a bit easier to decipher.

Also note that Yahoo says you can pay for inclusion (better/faster 
inclusion) - they didn't say all others are excluded.  It's an important 
distinction.

Lyle

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Lyle Kantrovich
User Experience Architect

Croc O' Lyle - Personal Commentary on usability, information 
architecture and design.
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	- Leonardo da Vinci


-----Original Message-----
From: listera at rcn.com [mailto:listera at rcn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:42 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] "Best Bets" the Yahoo way


"Christina Wodtke" wrote:

> Yahoo has always had people to pay to be included in the directory...

What Yahoo and Inktomi do is their business, critiquing what they do is
mine.:-)