[Sigia-l] Fitts' Law gone crazy?

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

2006/3/17, Billie Mandel <Billie.Mandel at openwave.com>:
> Big.com have translated "easier to read" into stripping the URLs down to
> the domain only (who needs those pesky http's anyway?), and removing all
> the related links to each result (Cached - Similar pages - Remove
> result) that Google results have.  The Google results page feels
> downright chaotic in comparison.

Simple is good, but the functionality Google provides with those
related links can be quite useful. For instance, I have often found
myself looking at the cached version when the original result has
changed its content or gone stale. On the other hand, as a frequent
user, I am pretty good at ignoring those links when I have no use for
them. It would be interesting to try to determine empirically whether
the related links are as helpful to the "general user population".

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Dmitry Nekrasovski
http://www.smallmultiples.com