Re: Why do so many people use Amazon and Google?

From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:41:02 +1000
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
On 6/14/06, Walt Crawford <waltcrawford_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>  And library catalogs do these searches pretty well, although there may be
> room for improvement in most cases. A lot of them (I believe) even sort the
> results in a way that makes sense to most users, e.g. alphabetic by title.

Why does it makes sense to sort by title alphabetically? Where does
that notion come from? Relevance to users is such a crazy field; I'm
pretty sure that it *does't *make sense to a lot of users to have
title listed alphabetically.


Alex
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