{"id":21,"date":"2006-10-18T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-10-18T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T06:41:17","slug":"searchability-the-key-to-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/21-searchability-the-key-to-usability.html","title":{"rendered":"Searchability the key to usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Joe Morel <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/joemorel\/archive\/2006\/10\/18\/how-are-people-using-the-msdn-forums.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">blogs about users of MSDN Forums<\/a>, the official discussion groups for Windows developers. He has stats which show that 98.5% of the forum&#8217;s users are lurkers (they read but do not post), that nobody like logging in and only do&nbsp;so&nbsp;when forced (because they want to post), and that most people find the content through Google rather than because they are consciously participating in an online community.<\/p>\n<p>This is more or less what I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?postid=511\">noted back in August<\/a>, but it&#8217;s good to see the confirming stats.<\/p>\n<p>Google helps; but many sites still have not learned the principles which Morel outlines. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d2231e1f-3b96-4036-be57-f031ba7e6456\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/search\" rel=\"tag\">search<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/MSDN\" rel=\"tag\">MSDN<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Morel blogs about users of MSDN Forums, the official discussion groups for Windows developers. He has stats which show that 98.5% of the forum&#8217;s users are lurkers (they read but do not post), that nobody like logging in and only do&nbsp;so&nbsp;when forced (because they want to post), and that most people find the content &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/21-searchability-the-key-to-usability.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Searchability the key to usability<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,74,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-search","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}