On 8/18/2015 8:35 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. > > (Of course I'm a little biased!!!) > > Tim N3QE >
IA seems to be search based, rather than navigation based - but without a good engine, or if they have a good engine, the interface isn't intuitive. The might want to look into Lucene / SOLR. JRJ