http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/01/03/blogs-are-fundamentally-flawed-for-the-typical-grandma-user/ "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of peers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:31:52 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/01/03/blogs-are-fundamentally-flawed-for-the-typical-grandma-user/comment-page-1/#comment-76 lobstertechnology.com » Weblog of Michael Cutler » Experimenting with Googlebot Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:27:20 +0000 http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/01/03/blogs-are-fundamentally-flawed-for-the-typical-grandma-user/#comment-76 [...] In my previous post 'Blogs are fundamentally flawed…' I noted an observation that more often than not search results would direct a user to an index-style page containing the post instead of directly to the 'permalink' location of the post. This leads to a poor user-experience from the visitor’s point of view, on busy blogs the post has almost certainly moved since the page was spider'd. Google in particular appeared to be the worst for it. [...] [...] In my previous post ‘Blogs are fundamentally flawed…’ I noted an observation that more often than not search results would direct a user to an index-style page containing the post instead of directly to the ‘permalink’ location of the post. This leads to a poor user-experience from the visitor’s point of view, on busy blogs the post has almost certainly moved since the page was spider’d. Google in particular appeared to be the worst for it. [...]

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