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I dont understand why docs.com even has a search bar in the first place? Apart from a "direct link" - who would want to go to docs.com and search for a topic?
by laurencei 10y ago
I dont understand why docs.com even has a search bar in the first place?
Apart from a "direct link" - who would want to go to docs.com and search for a topic?
I've been able to find lots of interesting documents searching for some medical, business and financial terms. There must be thousands if not tens of thousands of sensitive documents available...
- williamscales 10y agoMaybe the intention was to make it like Scribd? That's the only thing I can think of.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I dont understand why docs.com even has a search bar in the first place? Because it was designed for public sharing of documents and templates, and public sharing without discoverability sucks.
- nebabyte 10y agoThen putting it under a brand that for so long has been associated with (and pushed on, and designed for) internal enterprise documents or other sensitive/personal docs might not've been the best move? I don't know that there's a "social docs" brand, to figure out what it would call itself; but if MS exerted the minimal effort to understand its audience (which is required of any tech company that sells to domain experts who are more occupied with their work than what the workspace is configured to do), it wouldn't take them long to figure out how to pitch things to those users to accomplish whatever it is they're trying to do.
- contextfree 10y agoMy guess is docs.com will be merged into LinkedIn at some point; that would largely solve the problem since people already have a mental model of LI's purpose and sharing semantics, etc. (or at least the cost of acquiring one is amortized over other services/features that are part of LI)