http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/07/27/95/ Design and human behaviour Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:27:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/07/27/95/comment-page-1/#comment-7329 Architectures of Control in Design » [off-topic] Self-referential search results Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:01:01 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=95#comment-7329 [...] I don’t normally do ‘off-topic’ posts - in fact this is the first - but I just re-read the earlier post ‘Nice attitude‘ and clicked on the link ‘device to stop young people congregating‘ in the post, which links to an Orange search page which initially referred a visitor to this site. Notice anything? The same link, to the Orange search page you’re viewing, is top of the search results. That is, Orange’s search engine has listed one of its own results pages in its results. It’s as if Google had ‘Foo - Google Search’ as the top result when you searched for ‘Foo’. Presumably whoever designed Orange’s search engine (Overture?) never expected anyone to link directly to any search done using it, and so didn’t build in any method of trapping self-referencing hyperlinks? It’s a good job they don’t have an ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button or you’d just keep viewing exactly the same search page every time you clicked on it. [...] [...] I don’t normally do ‘off-topic’ posts – in fact this is the first – but I just re-read the earlier post ‘Nice attitude‘ and clicked on the link ‘device to stop young people congregating‘ in the post, which links to an Orange search page which initially referred a visitor to this site. Notice anything? The same link, to the Orange search page you’re viewing, is top of the search results. That is, Orange’s search engine has listed one of its own results pages in its results. It’s as if Google had ‘Foo – Google Search’ as the top result when you searched for ‘Foo’. Presumably whoever designed Orange’s search engine (Overture?) never expected anyone to link directly to any search done using it, and so didn’t build in any method of trapping self-referencing hyperlinks? It’s a good job they don’t have an ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button or you’d just keep viewing exactly the same search page every time you clicked on it. [...]

]]> http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/07/27/95/comment-page-1/#comment-2250 Jose Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:31:40 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=95#comment-2250 I've also taken to the "what the hell were they thinking" tack when looking at the search queries that led people to Meme Therapy. My favourite is "Jose the only and only". Unfortunately I suspect they weren't thinking of me. I’ve also taken to the “what the hell were they thinking” tack when looking at the search queries that led people to Meme Therapy. My favourite is “Jose the only and only”. Unfortunately I suspect they weren’t thinking of me.

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