[Sigia-l] Do Make Me Think!

[Malahat Hosseini]

Hmm... well I was ignorant of this..but still It is better to have the
opportunity to do such a search and get no results ( even better with good
explanation) than feeling constrained to functions and "actions" that do not
match your need. after all "the user wants to feel in control" ;-)










Quoting Skot Nelson <skot at penguinstorm.com>:

> 
> On Oct-15-2006, at 17:32 , Malahat Hosseini wrote:
> 
> > I want to go to trip with this ( x) budget any time in fall...I  
> > dont want to
> > give you a fixed date... I just want to see whatever you have and  
> > pick...
> >
> >
> > is this a rare case? :)
> 
> No, but I think that the problem here is a slightly different one:  
> how to deal with "fuzzy" queries. I do agree that the inability to  
> query  travel sites in seemingly natural ways is a problem.
> 
> That's both a technological and an architecture issue.
> 
> On the architecture side of things, how you structure queries and  
> present responses will play a hugely significant role.
> 
> On the technology side, the needs here are quite interesting. Travel  
> sites get most the information that they sell and redistribute from  
> external sources. There's no such thing as "inventory" in most  
> case....Expedia doesn't have 5 trips to Mexico sitting on a shelf,  
> and what they do have changes from moment to moment. A seat on KLM is  
> available now but...ooops....now it's gone.
> 
> So the travel sites themselves may benefit from some impression  
> ability to deal with "soft" queries, but the people providing their  
> "inventory" require absolute precision -- it's a fun conflict.
> --
> Skot Nelson
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> 
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> 
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> 	 there is no longer anything to add, but when there
> 	 is no longer anything to take away."
> 	-- Antonine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
> 
> 
> 


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