Re: ibm dot com search in System i pages

At 09:31 PM 8/23/2006, you wrote:

I have never been a fan of IBM's website search, often not finding what I know is there. I was looking for the page of IBM ads with customer's talking about how much they love the iSeries (System i) for a specific ad. I tried the customer's company name (a single word that would be fairly unique, no special characters - not found. I tried the Business Partner's name and the search result page had 9 links with a short paragraph under each link. But none of the paragraphs had much to do with the BP, and it made it appear this BP was responsible for what many other companies had done, and linked them to other customer stories they had nothing to do with. Someone's web crawler had lumped and scrambled much of this together into semi-sensible phrases that were very wrong. Did the view-source for the page and html was normal and not at all like search results. I tried several other search attempts and either got no search results (for names that are clearly on the page) or scrambled descriptions. It's kind of sad when one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world can't do "search".

jim
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