Friday, October 22, 2004
OK-Cancel: What's Hiding Behind Search-Based Navigation?
Some relevant points about the problems with Google-style approaches to desktop search, especially the issues of privacy (also covered in Slashdot relating to public machines).
It's a partial solution to a partial problem - I'll wait to see Pete's comments on how wonderful it is in the near future (but was it coincidence that the day after he installed it his machine crashed and died, being virus-ridden, with hard disk failure and memory failure as well? - must have been). Search is complex, cos we often search, then browse, then search again - and different data sources require different approaches. But is it also a case of something is better than nothing?
Some relevant points about the problems with Google-style approaches to desktop search, especially the issues of privacy (also covered in Slashdot relating to public machines).
It's a partial solution to a partial problem - I'll wait to see Pete's comments on how wonderful it is in the near future (but was it coincidence that the day after he installed it his machine crashed and died, being virus-ridden, with hard disk failure and memory failure as well? - must have been). Search is complex, cos we often search, then browse, then search again - and different data sources require different approaches. But is it also a case of something is better than nothing?
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