19 Aug
2015
19 Aug
'15
2:58 a.m.
On 8/18/15 6:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
I just went to IA to see what all of the fuss was about.
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
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 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.