>Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry Don't knock encyclopedias/dead tree layouts. It's be

>Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry Don't knock encyclopedias/dead tree layouts. It's been a hell of an information transmission medium for centuries, and comes loaded with haptic shortcuts to aid recall and indexing. I often call UX people on this when they want to do away with pagination and go to search bars. Yes, Boolean search is cool and all. Most people don't think in query languages for getting them all the way to where they are looking. They usually just want a starting set, then let them flip pages, or refine their query. Generally, when searching an unknown datastore, I like unrefined queries and manually perusing the data to get the lay of it by landmarking pages. Point being, I still remember my first media center 101 on boolean searching, and my early years with search engines. To be honest, I feel like I got way more out of search indexes that didn't have agendas (piracy site suppression, artificially propping up marketing efforts, etc), than I do today.