[Sigia-l] Will she be fired?

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

Perhaps. Without actual data representing a cross-section of search
engine users, neither of us should really be using the words "most
people". :)

What's more certain, however, is that people looking for Michael
Jordan the machine learning researcher would be aware that desired
results can be obtained by refining their query, and would not need MS
scanning their hard drives to help them accomplish this task...

Dmitry

On 3/9/07, Davezilla <davezilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Dmitry Nekrasovski <mail.dmitry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1) Most people who have used a modern search engine for any amount of
> > time are probably aware that the way to resolve this dichotomy is to
> > add more terms to their search query,
>
> Clearly, you have not sat through usability tests. Most people still
> think you get to sites by typing the entire URL into Google's search
> field.  Telling them to add more search terms makes their head
> explode.
>  ;^)
>
> --
> Color me gone,
> Dave Linabury (Davezilla)
> <http://davezilla.com>
>
> "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."– Anais Nin
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