Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>
>
> ... I even suspect that with the
> onslaught of massive amounts of data the very idea of an index has been
> thought of as undoable. There is no evidence for either or as far as I'm
> aware; it's a matter of implementation and interface design. If they
> make sense, we *should* do them, but it's dangerous to conclude that low
> demand is justification for them not being usable.
>
Usable they most certainly are, even useful. Most of our systems have
them, but we detect low enthusiam for them. People like to toss in a
wordcoin or two into a slot and take the output for relevant results,
any additional click or input is not popular. Any questions as to
might there be better results are seldom asked. (NG design, I'm afraid,
will have to work from this, not from any assumption that users
might be educatable.)
B. Eversberg
Received on Mon Jun 26 2006 - 07:36:08 EDT