On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 06:10:49 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> 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. :-)

:P

>> 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.

Agreed. :)

Jim



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