> Did page rank come from analyzing users wants or needs? There's plenty of > technology out there that one could argue would have been stifled if > engineers were told to only focus on what people want or need, not what is > possible purely at the engineering level. > >From page Rank's history, it's hard to say it's not from analyzing users needs, because the search engine that time ( before google ) cant provide relevant infomation according to user's search intention ( in J.B's words, data base of intention, and his book 'The Search'<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Search_%28book%29>explains the behind story elegantly).
2 cents. -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
