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The Google example points at one mayor constraint of text-based UIs: either you severely restrict the language that people can use to query the system, or you w
by felipeerias 11y ago
The Google example points at one mayor constraint of text-based UIs: either you severely restrict the language that people can use to query the system, or you will be dealing with a really hard, Google-size problem.
- rsync 11y ago"The Google example points at one mayor constraint of text-based UIs: either you severely restrict the language that people can use to query the system, or you will be dealing with a really hard, Google-size problem." I disagree, and I think we can see the counter-example very clearly with altavista. You could go to altavista and type in "dumb" search queries, just like google. But simultaneously, with no change at all in the UI and no constraints imposed on the "dumb" users, you could also type in very sophisticated boolean searches like: linux grep ("regular expression" and "regex") and get very precise and sophisticated search results. I miss this every single day