begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:14:03PM -0700: > Doug LaRue wrote: > >I find it interesting that people will go to google to find information > >from a well known website instead of using the website itself. FYI, > >it took me about 4 clicks to find the CS107( three of them ) course > >listed for this fall. sdsu.edu->Departments/Offices->Computer > >Science/Dept of -> Fall Class Schedule > > I got those, but that doesn't get me the websites for previous years.
/Are/ the websities for previous years still available? [chop] > I'm probably lucky that SDSU still actually has a Solaris server. > However, they seem to have lots of money for stupid things like > Blackboard instead of wiki's/forums. > > Although, I know how Blackboard got in. They simply made security an > SEP (somebody else's problem). So, instead of having someone at SDSU > responsible for a breakin, they can point at the Blackboard folks and > say "They told us it was secure. Not our fault." I looked at Blackboard. It sucked. I can't use it from home*, and that's a killer. So I didn't, and won't, until it meets _my_ standards. (*I won't enable Javascript on my machines; if SDSU wants me to use it, they can supply the hardware and network connection.) > >I've seen naive computer users use the internet search box for everything > >and that includes when they are told to load a homepage. It didn't dawn > >on me that skilled users would bypass looking for data on a known website > >and use the search engine instead. I wonder how common this practice is? > > A) "Naive" user is a lot more common than you would expect. Using google to search wikipedia is faster than using wikipedia's own search -- with those sorts of lessons, why would we think less of a user who reaches for google first? It's *smart* to use a search engine if the results are the same, aside from performance. > B) Not every topic has a specific entry point like this one > > This should be a *big* concern for people on this list--especially as > Google gobbles up more and more marketshare. Much of the value of the > internet is in the fringe--the obscure, the non-mainstream, the unpopular. Yes. What can we do about it? I've been poking various search engines, and finding that they're all silent about your cs530 web-pages. It's eerie. I want to grep the webserver logs to see if they've been indexed at all. Is it just that there's no link to them from anywhere? > Otherwise, it's just another method of feeding pablum to the masses. Welcome to Web 2.0. -- There's a traffic-jam in my tubes! Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
