[Sigia-l] the purpose of a homepage

[Jared M. Spool]

At 05:46 AM 12/15/2005, Listera wrote:
>Reinoud Bosman:
>
> > I think a homepage serves dual purposes that support different kinds of 
> user
> > behaviour.
>
>Would you hazard a guess as to if/why the usage of homepages have steadily
>declined since the ubiquity of search engines and other more granular
>referring sources, like blogs?

Josh Porter wrote an article about this a while back:

Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content
http://www.uie.com/articles/content_aggregators/

Jared

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