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Well the user searched news not the general web. Not sure how big of an issue this is. AOL site delivers their search results from google anyways.
by asadpanda 14y ago
Well the user searched news not the general web. Not sure how big of an issue this is. AOL site delivers their search results from google anyways.
- rachelbythebay 14y agoSure, they did do a news search, but it also fails at that. How do any of those results fulfill that request? My post did not contain the word "AOL" at all. My only post with that particular sequence of characters before this morning was one from April 21st which talked about the decline of empires, Netscape being eaten, and all of that as seen in Coders at Work. People are going to do web searches for things which make no sense to technical types. We can either roll our eyes at them (or worse), or we can accept them as a quirk of the human condition and create systems which will provide an acceptable experience even though they don't "get" the web the way we do. I'm not sure, but I think the latter one might be far more profitable.