Liberating websites from search engines

Liberating websites from search engines

Hello,

I came across this superb article by Dr Jakob Nielsen, the guru of
usability, who suggests some radical ideas, ranging from the proven
(newsletters) to the speculative (mobile services).
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/search_engines.html

Thought it would be of interest.

Sunil
The Flea

Work: http//www.fleaglobal.com

Blog: http://newnimproved.blogspot.com

newnimproved (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Liberating websites from search engines

Hello,

I came across this superb article by Dr Jakob Nielsen, the guru of
usability,

The self-proclaimed guru ;-) His site might be very usable, but is a
horror to read IMNSHO. I wonder what he thinks of that research that in
the first seconds we have formed an opinion on a website, by just looking
:-D.

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On 20 Jan 2006 21:40:19 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

but is a horror to read IMNSHO.

Agreed, and actually it has been written many times that text should
not go from one side of the screen to the other. This is a very bad
idea for people with reading disabities. (Lines merge into one etc)

plh
Paul


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Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

On 20 Jan 2006 21:40:19 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

but is a horror to read IMNSHO.

Agreed, and actually it has been written many times that text should
not go from one side of the screen to the other. This is a very bad
idea for people with reading disabities. (Lines merge into one etc)

One could make the window smaller :-) But.. I am not going to do resize my
window for every site I visit.

What I just don't like about his site is the use of a lot of bold, links,
bold links (!), and marked text. I know that he has found out that 75%
(roughly) of the people scan read, but I think that his conclusion (IIRC)
that this means that pages *should* be written for scan reading is not
always right. Maybe some pages are boring, but his pages are hyper for me.


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