On 8/8/2015 12:32 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> See! Training!
>> >Users need training.:-P
> I never said they don't need training.  What I said was that if your
> software business' bottom line depends on training revenue as part of
> that bottom line, you're doing software wrong - and I stand by that
> statement.:)
>

Get me a landing net. I have a bite. :-)

> But in this particular instance, a search interface that provided
> semantics for finding things based on arbitrary criteria that dealt with
> a natural language interface would probably be easier for the users.
> Much more difficult to implement, and Google's search capabilities (as
> someone in this thread, I think, already pointed out) make anyone else's
> search look like a child's attempt.
>
> But actually, the Google search interface itself is an example of how to
> do user interaction around search right.  It doesn't provide as much
> flexibility as other search engines, but it works for the vast majority
> of what it's used for, and is simple, elegant, and requires no special
> training to understand how to use.

Yes and it has the best spell checker I've come across.

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Regards
     Stephen

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