Jakob Nielsen, in an article titled Mental Models For Search Are Getting Firmer, provides more fuel for my claim that web search is a commodity. He warns against trying to change the search user interface. This argues that search engines should not try to distinguish themselves with fancy front ends. That leaves the backend, where innovation seems to have slowed as well…
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Mental Models For Search Are Getting Firmer (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
May 12, 2005Jakob Nielsen, in an article titled Mental Models For Search Are Getting Firmer, provides more fuel for my claim that web search is a commodity. He warns against trying to change the search user interface. This argues that search engines should not try to distinguish themselves with fancy front ends. That leaves the backend, where innovation seems to have slowed as well…
