19 Aug
2015
19 Aug
'15
11:54 a.m.
There is currently a design and programming team looking to improve and
redo the search interface. I've been seeing their design approaches go by
on the internal channels as they revise it. I'm not sure when it all goes
live, but an improved and more directed search is absolutely in the plans.
On Aug 18, 2015 11:28 PM, "Jay Jaeger" <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
On 8/18/2015 8:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
confused
and perplexed about what the IA guys are trying to do. Bitsavers
has a perfectly obvious and navigable layout; IA makes no sense at all.
> IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are
deliberately working to
redirect all search
> traffic to IA from the original mirrors by
constantly creating useless
'new' content that
> Google thinks is real.
>
> I have watched over time as the volume of Google top search hits have
migrated
to IA hosted
content
from the mirrors.
I have occasionally stumbled into the bitsavers stuff on IA and was just
(Of course I'm a little biased!!!)
Tim N3QE
IA seems to be search based, rather than navigation based - but without
a good engine, or if they have a good engine, the interface isn't
intuitive. The might want to look into Lucene / SOLR.
JRJ