Re: UKNM: Word.com

[Jo Chipchase]

Chris Heathcote wrote:

 >At 10:35 am +0000 on 2/2/00, Cait Hurley wrote:

 ><web design>

 >  >it's a functional design ethic. It's about using.

 >

 >Completely agree. One of my roles is information architecture and

 >interaction design.

 >

 >Yahoo fails on that though, because the categories have got too

 >unweildy, often returning completely irrelevent information. The

 >human classifiers are no longer helping - you often get more salient

 >results from the Yahoo web search than the category search.


I agree... for example, Yahoo's category for Brighton UK is particularly 

poor.  DMOZ does better here, with it's volunteer category editor.


 >A nice idea, badly executed.


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