I am more than happy to discuss with people alternate ways that the information on the Internet Archive could be presented. On Aug 18, 2015 9:58 PM, "Guy Sotomayor" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 8/18/15 6:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: > >> IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working to >>> redirect all search >>> traffic to IA from the original mirrors by constantly creating useless >>> 'new' content that >>> Google thinks is real. >>> >>> I have watched over time as the volume of Google top search hits have >>> migrated to IA hosted >>> content from the mirrors. >>> >> I have occasionally stumbled into the bitsavers stuff on IA and was just >> confused and perplexed about what the IA guys are trying to do. Bitsavers >> has a perfectly obvious and navigable layout; IA makes no sense at all. >> >> >> I just went to IA to see what all of the fuss was about. > > I can sum up what I saw in one word. Yech! > > I agree with Tim, what IA is doing makes no sense. > > About the only thing that I can figure out is that they decided to make it > "searchable" (but I didn't spend much time trying to figure out how "deep" > the search could go). The problem that I have with a lot of the whole > "searchable" notion, is that in many ways the information is not longer > "navigable". > > Sure with a search, I can get a lot of "hits" but the information is not > presented in any meaningful way (other than a simple linear list) and > rather > than presenting some additional navigational structure, it requires > re-casting > the search to (hopefully) get to a list that is reasonable to search > through > which is probably more work (and error prone). > > TTFN - Guy >
