19 Aug
2015
19 Aug
'15
3:42 a.m.
I am more than happy to discuss with people alternate ways that the
information on the Internet Archive could be presented.
On Aug 18, 2015 9:58 PM, "Guy Sotomayor" <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
On 8/18/15 6:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are
deliberately working to
I can sum up what I saw in one word. Yech!
I agree with Tim, what IA is doing makes no sense.
About the only thing that I can figure out is that they decided to make it
"searchable" (but I didn't spend much time trying to figure out how
"deep"
the search could go). The problem that I have with a lot of the whole
"searchable" notion, is that in many ways the information is not longer
"navigable".
Sure with a search, I can get a lot of "hits" but the information is not
presented in any meaningful way (other than a simple linear list) and
rather
than presenting some additional navigational structure, it requires
re-casting
the search to (hopefully) get to a list that is reasonable to search
through
which is probably more work (and error prone).
TTFN - Guy
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
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.
I just went to IA to see what all of the fuss was about.