** Reply to message from Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 21 May
2008 04:55:33 -0700
> When I can't type in a course number and a professor's name and get the
> web page that exists, I have to start asking--what *else* is Google
> missing. And why?
>
> And, just so you know, this isn't about my website, specifically. I'm
> just using it as a convenient example that I know is static. The thing
> that kicked this off was that I was trying to see what books the CS100
> and CS107 classes used at SDSU, and I couldn't find the websites.
I find it interesting that people will go to google to find information from
a well known website instead of using the website itself. FYI, it took me
about 4 clicks to find the CS107( three of them ) course listed for this fall.
sdsu.edu->Departments/Offices->Computer Science/Dept of ->
Fall Class Schedule
I found no mention of the book(s) required for the class even though it is
mentioned books are part of the "Hyperlinks data. After looking
around on the CS dept page, I could not find any mention of what books
were used or are to be used. If I really cared, I'd then send them and
email asking where this information was located on the website. Probably
cc the webmaster as well as the department chair.
And a good hint as to how poor the SDSU site is, do a search using their
search box. You will leave their site and end up at a google.com page.
Not in a frame with the search results but totally off the sdsu.edu site.
It's a poorly designed implementation so I wouldn't give google too much
blame for not leading you to what you were looking for on that site.
I've seen naive computer users use the internet search box for everything
and that includes when they are told to load a homepage. It didn't dawn
on me that skilled users would bypass looking for data on a known website
and use the search engine instead. I wonder how common this practice is?
Doug
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