[Sigia-l] ROI/Value of Search Engine Design - Resources?

[Laura Norvig]

It seems to me that what we're talking about is making search more 
transparent. Search will still be taking place behind the scenes. The 
"clickable categories", at least at sites with large amounts of data, 
will essentially be performing live searches of databases or 
database-driven sites to return the most pertinent info. So, IMHO, 
quality search becomes more important than ever, albeit while making 
it more and more transparent to the user.

Laura Norvig, MLIS
"Intelligent Human Agent"
lauran at etr.org

At 11:29 PM -0500 2/18/03, Jared M. Spool wrote:
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>Having spent much time researching how law students interact with 
>Lexis (and Westlaw), I believe that someday we'll understand how to 
>build a search-less, drill-down interface to the ever-growing 
>library of legal content that underlies those systems.



>You're absolutely correct -- I really do see the future in terms of 
>categories and clicking. The more I watch what's happening with the 
>evolution of web sites, the more I believe that Search is 
>essentially an experiment that has failed,