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If competition with basic keyword search survives, the benefit of implementing something more sophisticated might just not be worth it. With search you usually
by anotheryou 10y ago
If competition with basic keyword search survives, the benefit of implementing something more sophisticated might just not be worth it. With search you usually know what you are looking for and can pin it down quite well with classic keyword search, discovery happens elsewhere.
- vidarh 10y ago> With search you usually know what you are looking for and can pin it down quite well with classic keyword search, discovery happens elsewhere. Having looked at search terms users enters on a lot of client sites, I don't believe that for a second. Users are exceptionally bad at composing search terms.
- anotheryou 10y agoYou are probably right. Who searches? Is it really just the long-tail that can't be served by good navigation and the most important content in prominent places? Or could one optimize the rest first? (of course, a bit of statistics on what is accessed frequently helps here too)