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But this website also deemphasizes search results in favor of curated answers, just like Google.
by elpool2 6y ago
But this website also deemphasizes search results in favor of curated answers, just like Google.
- jefftk 6y agoWhen I run the search on mobile I see six screens of information scraped from Wikipedia and NIH before it starts showing organic links. This is good user experience, but it's the same "problem" that the original article is objecting to.
- chris_f 6y ago"When I run the search on mobile I see six screens of information scraped from Wikipedia and NIH before it starts showing organic links." That is a fair criticism for mobile where the sidebar collapses to the top. On desktop, organic results take up the majority of the screen and the curated results are shown only in the sidebar. With limited screen space on mobile it is difficult to see multiple sections of results at the same time. The only change I could think of would be to adjust the CSS so that the sidebar collapses bellow the organic results.
- jefftk 6y agoI like it the way it is!
- chris_f 6y ago"But this website also deemphasizes search results in favor of curated answers, just like Google." That is not correct. On desktop, organic search results take up the middle 60% of the screen with nothing above them. The curated results are in the sidebar.
- elpool2 6y agoI was viewing it on mobile, where it's still very deemphasized. Edit: To be fair, you're right that on desktop Google could show curated content without pushing search results off the page. It's a lot harder to do on mobile, but I think it's still possible (after all people have pretty big screens on their phones these days).