On 1/3/08, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let's take this off the web for a moment.
Erm. You can't take SEO off the Web. : ) One of the things that DOESN'T work about Fresh Direct is that it is > searched based. However when people shop for groceries they are > browser based (hunting & foraging). Google can't help you there. So if > I want to design a browsing system SEO is actually irrelevant, b/c > "engines" are irrelevant from user mental models. Browsing is a completely different situation. For example, I hate trying to find movies at Netflix because I usually don't know exactly what I'm looking for. I much prefer going to a movie rental store and just wandering through the aisles until something strikes me. In that situation, recommendations and other browsing hacks just don't quite do it for me... they don't match the experience of being able to scan through a floor-to-ceiling stack of movies. It sounds like you're looking at human tasks from a much higher perspective... yes, information finding does not necessarily imply use of the Web, but when it does, optimizing Web content for human consumption will also make it more palatable to the machines. Jeff said this much more eloquently in his comment about SEO being based on "semantic structure and other good design principles." That's really all we're talking about here. F. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
