Comments on: King Google http://www.blog.kalda.ca/archives/114 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:25:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robyn http://www.blog.kalda.ca/archives/114/comment-page-1#comment-660 Robyn Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:06:18 +0000 http://www.blog.kalda.ca/archives/114#comment-660 Ian -- unless the parent knows their offspring's Myspace/Bebo ID, such a search won't get them much, just like searching for my name won't get you my aliases. That's why I think searches for just plain "Myspace" are people clicking through to Myspace <i>generally</i>, not people searching for specific Myspace content. (Or if they are searching for specific content, they're not good searchers -- which is another usability issue.) Melle -- just to be clear -- I don't blame newbies -- not at all! It's not their fault IE is so incredibly dreadful. And yeah, for sure Google is the recipient of quite a bit of my love too. But there's using it in the awareness that it's a lazy shortcut, and there's using it because <i>that's all you ever do</i> -- the first is inevitable; the second is what I find depressing. (Written using Firefox, of course... :-) ) Ian — unless the parent knows their offspring’s Myspace/Bebo ID, such a search won’t get them much, just like searching for my name won’t get you my aliases. That’s why I think searches for just plain “Myspace” are people clicking through to Myspace generally, not people searching for specific Myspace content. (Or if they are searching for specific content, they’re not good searchers — which is another usability issue.)

Melle — just to be clear — I don’t blame newbies — not at all! It’s not their fault IE is so incredibly dreadful. And yeah, for sure Google is the recipient of quite a bit of my love too. But there’s using it in the awareness that it’s a lazy shortcut, and there’s using it because that’s all you ever do — the first is inevitable; the second is what I find depressing.

(Written using Firefox, of course… :-) )

]]> By: Melle http://www.blog.kalda.ca/archives/114/comment-page-1#comment-659 Melle Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:22:28 +0000 http://www.blog.kalda.ca/archives/114#comment-659 Sherry, DanaD, and I had this very conversation recently. It's not even "haha, dumb newb!" material anymore when someone types a URL into Google. We all even admitted to doing it, though only the company or site name, just to let it do the work. Granted, in our defence, we also all have FF and lots of extensions... :) Sherry, DanaD, and I had this very conversation recently. It’s not even “haha, dumb newb!” material anymore when someone types a URL into Google. We all even admitted to doing it, though only the company or site name, just to let it do the work.

Granted, in our defence, we also all have FF and lots of extensions… :)

]]> By: Ian Delaney http://www.blog.kalda.ca/archives/114/comment-page-1#comment-658 Ian Delaney Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:30:02 +0000 http://www.blog.kalda.ca/archives/114#comment-658 That's a great point. The top searches tell us what people don't know about to as great an extent as what they do. Who would search for myspace/bebo but a parent, perhaps desperately seeking their alienated teenage offspring? That’s a great point. The top searches tell us what people don’t know about to as great an extent as what they do. Who would search for myspace/bebo but a parent, perhaps desperately seeking their alienated teenage offspring?

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