> When I have managed in a very few cases to get someone to understand how
> the subject headings work, they ask: Why don't Google and Yahoo work
> this way? That question made me feel great! I think that people today
> would absolutely love that kind of "new" and "innovative" experience
> that they can find nowhere else on the web. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft,
> Apple and the other "information companies" will never offer such access.
While you claim they will never, they are actually trying to show
related items and data
and are sometimes getting it right and sometimes wrong. Much easier to
see this happening with rare searches with small result sets than the
normal millions of results.
I certainly see attempts at related items being shown to me in Ebay
result sets with some well matched and some very badly, probably to be
expected for new algorithms.
>
> It seems to me that if we don't focus on projects like this, we end up
> competing with the Googles and Yahoos, and we will find ourselves in a
> race we must lose.
You need to be as good or better to compete.
Received on Fri Aug 02 2013 - 12:37:01 EDT