Comment by 0123456789ABCDE
14 hours ago
have you considered, in the specific example of google being different from the rest, that all the other services were _wrong,_ or their goals were different than google's?
14 hours ago
have you considered, in the specific example of google being different from the rest, that all the other services were _wrong,_ or their goals were different than google's?
I’m not sure what you’re arguing with.
GOOGLE did not look like the rest of the search engine engines on purpose. We agree completely. It looked very different and it operated in a very different way.
If instead, we designed GOOGLE like we designed website websites now, with Jakob’s law front of mind, what would have been created would have just been another entry in a forgettable list.
The argument is that user research will tell you when your customers want a faster horse. It will not tell you all that much else. If you want customers who want a faster horse or if what you need is to be told to make a faster horse—which is most websites— it works great.