[Sigia-l] [Iai-Members] Tafiti - Silverlit search

[marianne]

Hello All,

I'm going with "boo.com for search" after my first foray into
www.tafiti.com. It is beautiful to look at and the Silverlight is fun. But
the experience is far from intuitive and, at time, prohibitive. (How do I
get rid of that big sheet or whatever it is supposed to be and that should
not be taking up 80% of the center screen space). I think that we're on the
same page with Google works great and the white screen/small box is good
enough. 

In the end, search experiences are about the results more than the
experience. Much like Kazaa, Tafiti is pretty to look at and not much more.

So votes the Peanut Gallery.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:iai-members-bounces at lists.iainstitute.org] On Behalf Of David Malouf
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:16 AM
To: SIGIA-L; iai-members at lists.iainstitute.org
Subject: [Iai-Members] Tafiti - Silverlit search

hey there folks,

There is a new search interface site out there called Tafiti
(tafiti.com). it is built on top of the silverlight platform.

It is an RIA search interface.

I found a lot of it to be very different. I don't know if it is a
concept idea or a real business model being put together so it is hard
to know what angle to judge it with.

There are 2 distinct views--list and tree.
To be honest I don't get the tree view.

I do like the list view for the most part. and I like you can cut the
data by Feed, Web, Images, News, etc.

Anyway, do people feel this there is stuff to glean from here? Or is
this really just "boo.com" for search?

I'm feelin' the latter.

-- dave

-- 
David Malouf
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