On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:12:11, dave malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Machines and humans will NEVER have the same complete set of usability > needs (if you will).
No, not the same complete set... of course! I'm simply talking about the task of finding relevant information. SEO's sole goal is to index. Human's have many goals when it comes > to information and thus their mental models for how to deal with that > information will shift dramatically away from the type of goals that > are programmed into search engines. Yes, humans have many goals about why they want a piece of information and will consume it in different ways and take different actions based upon it... but in order to do any of that they have to find it first. I would modify your statement to say that SEO's main goal is to get stuff found. Humans, while we may have larger macro-goals, will inevitably have at least a micro-goal of "finding relevant information," ESPECIALLY in the context of the Web. Google's macro-goal is "finding relevant information," and to do that it does its best to mimic how humans determine relevance: a) do lots of other humans think it's relevant? b) does it mention the topic (keyword) a lot? c) does the topic (keyword) appear in places that are supposed to communicate relevance to humans? And so on... 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
